On top, an Angolan soldier scanned the horizon, fingering a portable SAM-3 antiaircraft missile.

Unita rebels were apparently responding to Namibia's decision to allow Angolan soldiers to use Namibia as a staging area for attacks on the rebels.

Sergeant Leiria, a 31-year-old commando, has been an Angolan soldier since 1990.

About 300 armed guards, most of them former Angolan soldiers, have staked out a fortified perimeter around the mine.

African Leaders Meet The state-controlled television reported tonight that fighting was continuing between South African troops and Angolan soldiers.

South Africa is also to release the Angolan soldiers.

Another group of Angolan soldiers advanced from the west, flanking the Recces so that they could only go east now.

On Kinshasa's streets, especially in the city center where the funeral and burial took place, Zimbabwean and Angolan soldiers outnumbered Congolese soldiers.

Angolan soldiers who visited the strategic western city of Boma, by the border with Angola, said the rebels were holding that town with as few as 100 men.

Angolan soldiers also raped and looted, the UN investigation said.