| | Instead of the national celebration to mark the significant achievement of the 29 and 30 September 1992 multi-party elections, Angola has been plunged into a new period of armed confrontation. Once the Unaio Nacional para Independencia Total de Angola (UNITA) had refused to accept the election result and its key leadership left Luanda for Huambo (its base in the Central Highlands) the stage was set for a resumption of the civil war. All that was absent in the hostilities following the polls was a formal declaration of war. In the confused pattern of events following the elections, any attempt to apportion blame for the breakdown of the political process is far from an exact science; but some key developments elucidate the issues around the resumption of major hostilities: |
