/ 30 June 1999

JAILED UNITA MP SERIOUSLY ILL

A Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) MP in jail for collaborating with the organisation’s historic leader, Jonas Savimbi, is seriously ill, his wife said on Tuesday. Jose Domingos, locked up in February accused of aiding Savimbi from Luanda, has an unidentified illness that is causing progressive paralysis of his limbs, his wife Ana Filomena said. “They’re not letting me go see my husband in prison or to have a doctor treat him,” she told journalists. Domingos’ lawyer Andre Milton Kilandamoko said he had been unable to contact his client. The Luanda government has broken off all dialogue with Savimbi, preferring to deal with a dissident faction of UNITA.