The last Chief of the General Staff (EMG) of the Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) has fallen victim to illness. According to Angop, the retired general died in Madrid, Spain, at the age of 76. He was apparently ill.
Alberto Correia Neto was born on 8 July 1949, in Quimbele, in the province of Uíge. He was the son of Borges Francisco and Maria José Correia.
As a student, he belonged to a clandestine group of the MPLA, which supported the armed struggle, known as the Luanda Regional Committee. He was arrested in 1969 and held in preventive detention until the following year. He was ordered to reside in Cape Verde for six years by the Minister for Overseas Territories. He arrived at Tarrafal Field in 1970, leaving in 1974.
Later, he was political commissar of the Angolan People's Air Force/Anti-Aircraft Defense (FADA/DAA) and also served as commander of the FAPA/DAA between 1986 and 1991.
The general was the last head of the EMG of the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola, from 1991 to 1992.
He later served as Angolan ambassador to Brazil (2000 to 2006) and Germany (2011 to 2019).
Also according to Angop, Alberto Correia Neto was a retired general of the Social Security Institute of the Angolan Armed Forces.
