sentences:  At the end of 1962, he fled Portuguese rule and arrived in January 1963 in Leopoldville, Congo, where he took refuge and, in June 1963, he was elected into the leadership of the Youth of MPLA (JMPLA).From September 1963 to 1970 he studied electrical engineering in Moscow and underwent military training in the Soviet Union.In 1970 he took over logistical tasks for the military struggle against the Portuguese colonial rule in Angola for the MPLA's Eastern Front, based at the rear base in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.