UNITA

National Union for the Total Independence of Angola

União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola
Leader	Adalberto Costa Júnior
Founder	Jonas Savimbi
Founded	13 March 1966
Headquarters	Luanda
Ideology	Big tent; Angolan nationalism; African nationalism; Ovimbundu interests; Formerly:; Maoism
Political position	Centre to centre-right; Formerly:; Far-left, subsequently right-wing
Party flag
Website
	unitaangola.org
	UNITA ended armed struggle in April 2002

The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA, Portuguese: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the MPLA in the Angolan War of Independence and then against the MPLA in the Angolan Civil War.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 JUSTINO, Jofre. A actual UNITA traiu o espírito de Muangai. Maputo, 2006
↑ "Angola-Emergence of Unita". Mongabay. February 1989. Retrieved 20 January 2015.