Jamba, Cuando Cubango

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This article is about the town in the Cuando Cubango province of Angola. For the other Jamba in the Huíla province of Angola, see Jamba, Huíla.
Jamba
Location of Jamba in Angola

Jamba is a town in Angola, located in the southeastern province of Cuando Cubango, just north of the Namibian border along the Caprivi Strip.

The town is best known as the former military headquarters of UNITA, a rebel movement supported by South Africa and the United States that fought the Soviet-aligned and supported government in the Angolan Civil War, a Cold War conflict.

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