/ 12 February 1999

ANGOLAN GOVT RECAPTURES NORTHERN TOWN

THE Angolan army claimed on Friday to have recaptured the strategically important northern town of Mbanza-Congo from Unita rebels.The city, 500km north of Luanda, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, is among the main points of access to economic targets such as the oil fields of Soyo on the Atlantic coast about 200km to the west.