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The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) on 8 January claimed responsibility for two attacks on Angolan Armed Forces (Forças Armadas de Angola: FAA) units in the northern province of Cabinda.
A first ambush of an army vehicle near Vito Novo, Buco Zau municipality, on 20 December, resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and injury to seven others. A skirmish at Ntataba, Buco Zau, on 22 December killed one soldier and seriously injured another.
FLEC has been waging a low-level separatist guerrilla campaign since the 1960s, demanding independence from Angola. A peace agreement with the government of Angola in 2006 led to the splintering of FLEC into various factions, two of which continued the armed campaign.
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