TO FOLLOW ANGOLA UN PLANE A spokesman for the UNITA movement in Angola, Isaias Samakuva, says his organisation has no information about the circumstances surrounding the downing of the UN chartered planes around Huambo.

Mr Samakuva, speaking from Paris, said he had contacted the UNITA leadership in Bailundo and they had no information about the crash or possible survivors.

He denied reports that survivors of last weeks crash were being held hostage by UNITA.

Mr Samakuva said they had not received any formal ceasefire request from the UN and added that they weren't against the UN doing its work in the region.