Angolan rebels threaten new attacks in Cabinda

Separatists who claimed a deadly shooting on Togo's football team threatened new attacks in Angola, saying Sunday they had warned against hosting the Africa Cup of Nations in their province. The Forces for the Liberation of the State of Cabinda-Military Position (FLEC-PM) said attacks would continue because African football boss Issa Hayatou had refused to move games scheduled in Cabinda.
"This is going to continue, because the nation is at war, because Hayatou persists," the group's secretary general, Rodrigues Mingas, told AFP by telephone. "Weapons will continue to talk," he said. "This is our home, and it's time Angola understood that." "We wrote two months before the Nations Cup to Mr Issa Hayatou to warn him that we were at war. He did not want to take our warnings into consideration," said Mingas, who lives in exile in France.