/ 25 September 2001

BUSH EXTENDS SANCTIONS AGAINST UNITA

US President George W Bush on Monday extended for another year sanctions imposed against rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita). The White House said the president had concluded the rebel group continued to threaten the peace process in Angola. The 1993 sanctions banned arms and oil sales to Unita and froze the group’s assets in the United States. – AFP