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Events on Thursday 4 April 2002 1
2002End of the Angolan Civil WarCeasefire signed after 27 years of fightingAngola's government and the UNITA rebel movement signed a ceasefire, the Luena Memorandum, on 4 April 2002, weeks after the death in battle of the rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. The agreement ended a civil war that had run almost continuously since independence in 1975 and killed hundreds of thousands. UNITA disarmed and became a political party.