Abel Chivukuvuku

Abel Apalanga Chivukuvuku (born on November 11, 1957) served as the Chief of the UNITA Parliament in Angola from October 1998 to September 2000.cite book|last=Martin|first=James W.|coauthors=|year=2004|title=Historical Dictionary of Angola|page=33] He is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Angola, beginning in 2004. [ [http://www.africa-union.org/organs/pan%20african%20parliament/List%20of%20Members%20pap.pdf Pan-African Parliament members as of 15 March 2004] ] [ [http://www.pan-african-parliament.org/AboutPAP_PAPMemberCountries.aspx Pan-African Parliament members, as of 2006] ]

Margarida Chivukuvuku, wife of Pedro Chivukuvuku, gave birth to Abel in Luvemba, Angola in 1957. His parents enrolled him in Dondi Mission, Bela Vista elementary school and Huambo National Secondary School. He joined UNITA in 1974 and its armed wing, the FALA, in 1976. Chivukuvuku became UNITA's representative to the rest of Africa in 1979. He later served as Angola's representative to Portugal and the UK. He returned to Angola and ran in the 1992 parliamentary elections in 1992. He sustained wounds in the ensuing Halloween Massacre. MPLA police arrested him, holding him until 1997. He did not take sides in UNITA's factional disputes in the 1990s and his fellow parliamentarians elected him Chief of UNITA's Parliament in October 1998. He served until September 2000.

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* List of members of the Pan-African Parliament

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