World IN BRIEF : ANGOLA : Rebels Get Deadline to Attend New Talks
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U.N. officials warned Angolan rebels to send representatives to a new round of peace talks or the negotiations will be called off. Joao Albuquerque, a U.N. spokesman for the planned talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said that if the rebels failed to respond by 9 a.m. today, “no one is going to wait for UNITA after the deadline.” UNITA is the acronym for the rebel group’s name, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola.
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