Cabinda War

Cabinda War
	Part of the Angolan Civil War (until 2002)
	; Cabinda exclave (red)
Date	8 November 1975 – present; (48 years, 5 months and 2 days)
Location	Cabinda Province
Status	Ongoing Ceasefire declared by FLEC-Renovada in August 2006; Ongoing guerilla warfare by FLEC-FAC; Unilateral ceasefire declared by Cabindan militias; on 30 March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic;
Belligerents
Angola; Cuba (until 1991) UNITA (joint operations, 1991) Supported by: East Germany (until 1989) ; Soviet Union (until 1989) ;	FLEC FLEC-FAC; Communist Committee of Cabinda; Supported by: Zaire (until 1997) ; Belgium ; WLFD ;
Commanders and leaders
João Lourenço (2017–present); Agostinho Neto (1975–1979); José Eduardo dos Santos (1979–2017); Fidel Castro (1976–2008); Arnaldo Ochoa ; Erich Honecker (1975–1989); Leonid Brezhnev (1975–1982)	António Bento Bembe; Henrique N'zita Tiago; Alexandre Builo Tati; Francisco Xavier Lubota; José Tiburcio Zinga Loemba
Strength
87,000 (2013); 2,000; 4	300–7,000 in total (1975) ; FLEC-Renovada: 500 (1991); FLEC-N'zita: 200–300 (1991); FLEC-FAC: 600 (1992)
Casualties and losses
	~30,000 killed; 25,000 displaced

The Cabinda War is an ongoing separatist insurgency, waged by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) against the government of Angola. FLEC aims at the restoration of the self-proclaimed Republic of Cabinda, located within the borders of the Cabinda province of Angola.

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