Seventeen years after the leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in a government shootout and quickly buried, the controversial leader will be given a public funeral on Saturday, a major gesture towards national unity from the current government in Luanda.
The funeral will be "an important moment in the building of national reconciliation," according to Alcides Sakala Simoes of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
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