World-changing1987 – 1988 · 1 year

Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

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Cuito Cuanavale · Lomba River · south-east Angola

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Largest battle in Africa since World War II, fought between FAPLA-Cuban forces and SADF-UNITA on the Lomba River and around Cuito Cuanavale, ending in a strategic stalemate that produced the Namibian-Angolan settlement.

Belligerents4

Angola
Cuba
South Africa
UNITA

Conflict graph

PART OFSouth African Border War · Angolan Civil War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987 – 1988). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-cuito-cuanavale · Sources & methodology