Editing Cuando Cubango Province (section)

== History ==

Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Cuando Cubango served as the location for the primary base camp of Angola's [[UNITA]] rebel movement, led by [[Jonas Savimbi]]. The rebel movement received support from the United States as part of the [[Cold War]] conflict against Angola's Marxist government, which was supported by the [[Soviet Union]], [[Cuba]] and other communist states.

Savimbi and UNITA maintained a large and clandestine base camp in the Cubando Cubango town of [[Jamba, Cuando Cubango|Jamba]]. The camp was protected by anti-aircraft weapons and included an air strip, which was used for the delivery of military and other supplies, which typically arrived from neighboring [[Zaire]]. The [[Angolan Civil War]] ultimately became one of the most prominent conflicts of the Cold War, with both the United States and the Soviet Union depicting its outcome as important to the global balance of power.