Kissinger may recruit them and send them across the Angolan border.
Unita, meanwhile, still has a few bases in Congo, near the Angolan border.
It was the deadliest blast on the southern side of the Angolan border since the war began.
A paved highway would then be built from Kalabo north-west to the Angolan border and beyond.
In 2005, a line to Ondangwa near the Angolan border was under construction.
Malaria takes a high toll among the conscripted soldiers serving in what is called the "operating area on the Angolan border."
Since this line has been deeply embedded in political and historical issues, the government has proposed uprooting it to the Angolan border.
The last hundred yards of the paved road leading to the Angolan border is scarred with craters from rocket attacks.
The next section runs to Oshikango near the Angolan border.
With the extension of the railway towards the Angolan border in 2007, the Tsumeb station finds itself on a dead end.