[1] The population of the province is in flux; displaced residents have slowly returned to Moxico since the end of the Angolan Civil War in 2002.Its long border with Zambia at the east of the province was a base of operations for UNITA and MPLA.[7] Moxico Province is known as the place where UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi was killed in 2002, signalling an end to over a quarter-century civil war in Angola.Savimbi's body was buried in the village of Lucusse, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) south-east of the capital, Luanda, under a tree near where he was killed.Populations of Chokwe, Lovale, Mbunda, Lucazi, and Ovimbundu make up the majority of the province.