Significant1975 – 1976 · 1 year

Operation Savannah

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Benguela · Quibala · Ebo · southern Angola

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

South African armoured intervention in Angola at independence in support of UNITA and the FNLA, halted by Cuban reinforcements south of Luanda.

Belligerents6

South Africa
Angola
Cuba
UNITA
FNLA
MPLA

Conflict graph

PART OFSouth African Border War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Savannah (1975 – 1976). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-savannah · Sources & methodology