Cabinda Conflict
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Cabinda Conflict is a separatist insurgency of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda
Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda
The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda is a guerrilla and political movement fighting for the independence of the Angolan province of Cabinda. Formerly under Portuguese administration, with the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975, the territory became an exclave province...

 in Cabinda Province against the government of Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

. Cabinda is an enclave rich in oil. The conflict started ´several decades ago. There are more people speaking French than Portuguese in Cabinda.

According to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization , formed in 11 February 1991, in The Hague, is an international organization of political organisations and governments representing self-proclaimed "indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognised or occupied territories". The organization...

, Cabinda is subject to military occupation.
It adopted a resulotion concerning Cabinda in 2005.
Antonio Bento Bembe, who once led FLEC, is now an Angolan minister without portfolio tasked with human rights.

There was a fatal ambush on the Togo football team by the group in the province, which claimed it to have been a mistake.
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