The Angolan army has around 29,000 "ghost workers" who remain enrolled in the ranks of the FAA and therefore receive a salary.

The South African Army retreated and, with the help of Cuban forces, the Angolan army retook most of the south in the beginning of 1976.

The Angolan army later forcibly freed the other hostages on July 7.

The two parties also had to start working on the integration of selected UNITA troops into the Angolan army and demobilisation.

Angolan armies at times made extensive use of fortifications.

In 2004, according to Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Human Rights Watch mission for Africa, the Angolan army continued to commit crimes against civilians in Cabinda.

The former rebels later defected and joined the Angolan army.

The two parties were praised for the military framework agreement and the beginning of the integration of UNITA troops into the Angolan army.

In March 2007 he was involved in a dispute over some villages on the border occupied by the Angolan army.

In April, as the rebels prepared for their final push on the capital, Angola supplied reinforcements, most of them second-generation Zairian exiles who had served in the Angolan army.