General Abreu Muhengo “Kamorteiro”, who signed the peace accords between the government and UNITA in 2002, died this Monday, the Public Television of Angola (TPA) announced, citing an “official source”.
The General, current Deputy Chief of Staff for the Operational Development Area of the Angolan Armed Forces, was admitted to the Central Military Hospital.
The military leader, whose nom de guerre means small mortar in the Umbundu language, was an expert in land artillery with the extinct FALA, UNITA’s military arm, and one of the co-signatories of the peace accords for Angola signed April 4 , 2002, between the MPLA-backed government and UNITA, alongside General Armando da Cruz Neto, then Chief of the General Staff of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA).
The death in battle of UNITA’s founding leader, Jonas Savimbi, on February 22, 2022, marked the end of hostilities in the country, allowing the signing of the Luena (Moxico) Memorandum of Understanding, an addition to the Lusaka protocol of 1994.
Abreu Muhengo Ukwachitembo “Kamorteiro”, born in 1959, in the province of Bié, was at the time of the death of Jonas Savimbi, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FALA) of UNITA
After signing the Additional Memorandum of Understanding to the Lusaka Protocol, in Luanda, already included in the Angolan Armed Forces, with a leading position.
Abreu Muhengo Ukwachitembo did a PhD in history at the University of Évora.
Source: DN
