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How did Angola became independent?

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Angola becomes independent after 14 years of armed resistance to Portuguese colonial rule. The three major movements fighting the war, the Movimiento Popular de Liberación de Angola, (MPLA), the Front for the National Liberation of Angola (FLNA) and National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) signed the Alvor agreement in January 1975. read more

By 1974, the Portuguese military had all but won its 13-year war with several independence groups in Angola. Then, following a leftist military coup, the new regime in Lisbon announced that it was granting all its remaining colonies, including Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, their liberty. read more

The Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974) began as an uprising against forced cotton cultivation, and it became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal's overseas province of Angola among three nationalist movements and a separatist movement. read more

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