Through a "communiqué of war" of the General Staff of the Cabindan Armed Forces (FAC), signed by Commander Sebastião Muindo Jr., the independents indicate that the confrontations took place on Tuesday night in the villages of Chimbeti, in the municipality of Buco-Zau.
The clashes took place when the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) were attacked in that region of northern Cabinda.
As a result of these confrontations, five people died, four soldiers of the Angolan Armed Forces and one civilian, as well as seven wounded of the FAC, say the independence supporters.
In the same communiqué, the General Staff of the FAC denounced "the silence of the President, João Lourenço".
"The Angolan President is hostage to his mafia and corrupt generals, who do business in the territory of Cabinda", continues the statement, in which Angolan officials are held responsible for the "insecurity in Cabinda".
This communiqué follows another published on Tuesday by the CTF, which reported the deaths of 10 soldiers, eight Angolans and two of the CTF, during an attack on a unit of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA).
In a "communiqué of war", signed by the Chief Operational Officer of the FLEC-FAC (Front for the Liberation of the State of Cabinda-Cabindan Armed Forces), Futi Bonifácio Edinho, the independents speak of "intense fighting" between the FAC and the army in the region of Massabi.
In the attack on the FAA unit, "which was preparing to surprise" a position of the FAC, which occurred in the village of Chissanga, the Cabindan forces lost two fighters and eight Angolan soldiers were killed, and three others were wounded.
The Ministry of Defence has not confirmed the information.
Cabinda province, where most of the country's oil reserves are concentrated, is not contiguous with the rest of the territory and for many years local leaders have been advocating independence, claiming an autonomous colonial history of Luanda.
FLEC, through its 'armed arm', the FAC, is fighting for independence in that province, claiming that the enclave was a Portuguese protectorate, as established in the Treaty of Simulambuco, signed in 1885, and not an integral part of Angolan territory.
Cabinda is bounded to the north by the Republic of Congo, to the east and south by the Democratic Republic of Congo and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
