ANGOLAN rebels killed 25 people and injured 27 others in two attacks in the southern Huambo province this week, said the Roman Catholic radio station Ecclesia. The radio said rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) on Tuesday attacked the village of Longonjo in Huambo province, killing 24 villagers and wounding 27 others. Meanwhile, in an ambush Tuesday in Caala in the same province, Unita forces killed an army commander in charge of anti-rebel operations in the area. The province has been hard hit by a civil war that has ravaged Angola since independence in 1975. The conflict, which resumed in 1998 after the collapse of a 1994 peace accord, has so far claimed at least 500 000 lives and displaced some four million people out of a total population of 12-million. -AFP