Yaƙin Cunene

Yakin kogin Cunene ya faru ne tsakanin sojojin 'yan mulkin mallaka na Portugal da mayakan Ovambo daga Oukwanyama da Cuamato a Angola ta zamani a ranar 25 ga watan Satumban 1904. Kashin ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin mafi girman kashin da aka yi a tarihin 'yan mulkin mallaka na Portugal tun daga Alcácer Quibir (1578) kuma yana kwatankwacin kashin Ingila a Isandhlwana a kan Zulus (1879), na Italiya a Dogali (1887) da Adwa (1896) da Habashawa ko Spain a Melilla (1909) da A19 (19)."Thus in September 1904 a Portuguese column lost over 300 men killed, including 114 Europeans, in an encounter with the Kunahamas on the Kunene, not far from the German frontier. ... In 1905 and again in 1907 there was renewed fighting in the same region" 

Bayan sun fatattaki mutanen Nkhumbi, sojojin Portugal sun ci gaba daga Huila zuwa kudu zuwa yankunan da Portugal ta yi iƙirari amma har yanzu ba su sami iko ba. A kogin Cunene sun fuskanci turjiya daga mutanen Ovambo guda biyu, Cuamato/Kwamato da Cuanhama/Kwanyama, ƙarƙashin jagorancin sarkinsu Tchetekelo."Thus in September 1904 a Portuguese column lost over 300 men killed, including 114 Europeans, in an encounter with the Kunahamas on the Kunene, not far from the German frontier. ... In 1905 and again in 1907 there was renewed fighting in the same region"  Sa’ad da wata runduna ta ci gaba da ta ƙunshi sojojin Portugal 500 da na Humbi da ke ƙarƙashin kyaftin Luís Pinto de Almeida suka tsallaka kogin, an kashe mutane kusan 300 a wani kwanton ɓauna. 

Rashin nasarar Portuguese ya biyo bayan balaguron azabtarwa a cikin shekarar 1905 da 1907,  amma ba kafin 1916 Kudancin Angola ya kasance "lalatacce".

 Sources 


 António Aniceto Monteiro: The Conquest of Southern Angola (The Massacre, 25 September 1904)
 José Bento Duarte: Desastre do Vau do Pembe (Angola) – 25 de Setembro de 1904 

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