Cabinda War

Cabinda War
	Part of the Angolan Civil War (until 2002) and decolonization of Africa
	; Armed groups in Cabinda in 1996
Date	8 November 1975 – present; (50 years, 4 months and 8 days)
Location	Cabinda Province
Status	Ongoing Ceasefire declared by FLEC-Renovada in August 2006; Ongoing guerrilla warfare by FLEC-FAC; Unilateral ceasefire declared by Cabindan militias; on 30 March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic Ceasefire ended alongside the end of the pandemic; ;
Belligerents
Angola; Cuba (until 1991) Democratic People's Republic of Angola (1991) ; UNITA (joint operations, 1991); Military advisers and pilots: East Germany (until 1989) ; Soviet Union (until 1989) ;	FLEC FLEC-FAC; Communist Committee of Cabinda; Republic of Cabinda (1975–1976, 1999); Democratic Front of Cabinda; Zaire (1975)
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.