Cuito Cuanavale was a military base used previously to launch Cuban and Angolan attacks on the UNITA held town of Mavinga with the objective to capture it and eventually launch an attack on the UNITA headquarters at Jamba.
The potential loss of Mavinga by UNITA could give FAPLA the opportunity to stage a further attack on UNITA's capital at Jamba.
Jamba | Jamba Juice | Jamba, Cuando Cubango | Cuando River | The cast of ''Cuando toca la campana'' (from left to right). Julio Graham as Rodrigo, Leonel Deluglio as Miguel, Diana Santos as Ana, Gerardo Velazquez | Jamba, Huíla | Jamba! | Cuando los Ángeles Lloran | Cuando Cubango |
The 1989 Jamba Hercules crash refers to an accident involving a Lockheed Hercules C-100 aircraft belonging to a CIA front company, Tepper Aviation, that crashed on final approach at Jamba, Huíla in Angola while delivering arms to UNITA.
With an extension of 3.898 km2, and a density of population of 16 inhabitants per km2, it is limited with the towns of Caála and Tchicala Tcholoanga in Huambo Province in the North, with Jamba town in the South, with Kuvango in the East and with Caconda and Chicomba in the West.
Citizens for America staged an unprecedented meeting of anti-Communist rebel leaders called the "Democratic International", including Nicaraguan, Laotian, Angolan and Afghan (Mujahideen) rebels in June 1985 in Jamba, Angola.
In the southern route, to the south of the confluence of Kwilu and Kasai rivers, the fifth Mbunda Monarch, King Mwene Chinguli traveled all the way south to the now Cuando Cubango chasing the Bushmen and replacing them in the new found lands with the Mbunda descendants who were later known as the Chimbandi, the Ngonjelo, the Humbi, the Luimbi and the Nyemba.
According to Jamba, the song's melody is not a plagiat of Serge Gamany's work but a reprise of the "3 Chinesen mit dem Kontrabaß" song (which is a famous popular German song) ; the melody of "Mignon Mignon" and "3 Chinesen mit dem Kontrabaß" is effectively the same, making Serge Gamany losing his trial.
Since then, they have also collected an undisclosed sum of investments by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, the Samwer brothers (founders of the ringtone vendor Jamba!), and other sources.
In late 2004, VeriSign bought a relatively small Berlin-based company called Jamba for $270 million.