ANGOLA’s rebel movement Unita mortar-bombed targets in northern Namibia at the weekend, injuring eight people, mostly civilians, police said on Monday. The Namibian government confirmed that Angolan forces had been given permission to use Namibian territory as a springboard for attacks on Unita bases in southern Angola. Police spokesman Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu said two incidents had occurred in the region bordering Angola early on Sunday morning. In the first attack, he said “Unita elements” had fired mortars at a base of the Namibian Special Field Force, a paramilitary police unit, which slightly injured a Namibian policeman. The attack took place on the border town of Musese, about 600 km northeast of the capital Windhoek. A little later that morning, a second mortar was fired into the village of Nzinze, near Rundu, 80km east of Musese, hitting a tent where mourners at a funeral had gathered, injuring seven.