Jamba, Cuando

Jamba
Location of Jamba in Angola

17°27′21″S 22°36′47″E / 17.45583°S 22.61306°E / -17.45583; 22.61306

Jamba is a town in Angola, located in the municipality of Luiana in the southeastern province of Cuando, just north of the Namibian border along the Caprivi Strip.

The town is best known as the former military headquarters of UNITA, a rebel movement supported by South Africa and the United States that fought the Soviet-aligned and supported government in the Angolan Civil War, a Cold War conflict.

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