Angolan rebels kill seven, kidnap seven

LUANDA, Angola (Reuters) -- Angolan UNITA rebels killed seven people and kidnapped another seven in recent days near Nharea 500 km (300 miles) southwest of the capital Luanda, church-run radio Ecclesia reported on Tuesday.

This comes on top of four people killed and two seriously wounded in separate attacks over the weekend in the town of Seilunga 15 km (nine miles) from the Bie provincial capital of Kuito.

UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, has been waging a 25-year battle against Luanda following the country's independence. The war kas killed about one million and displaced millions more.

Fortified by huge oil revenues, the government has started to dominate the country's long-running war although UNITA has stepped up hit-and-run guerrilla attacks across the oil and diamond-rich country.

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