The recent ambush on the Togo national football team, just after it crossed the border into the Angolan enclave Cabinda, is a reminder of how 'small wars' can be forgotten and then suddenly re-appear.

BBC News:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8449319.stm

Background:http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ar/cabinda.htm

Togo's national football (soccer) team decided 09 January 2010 to withdraw from the African Cup of Nations in Angola after its team was attacked by gunmen. At least two people were killed and at least six others were wounded in the attack. The attack occurred a few minutes after Togo's team bus, under Angolan military escort, crossed into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda.

As of 2009 the Angolan government claimed that the war in Cabinda is over. However, sporadic attacks on government forces and expatriate workers have continued. A peace deal was signed in 2006 between Angola's government and the rebels under Bento Bembe's leadership, but another FLEC faction has refused to sign on.
Cabinda is Angola's main source of foreign income due to oil, with several interested parties and what a superb - for FLEC - gain.