The Huambo cisticola (Cisticola bailunduensis) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae that is endemic to western Angola in southern Central Africa.

It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the rock-loving cisticola.

The Huambo cisticola was formally described in 1931 by the German ornithologist Oscar Neumann based on specimens collected near the town of Bailundo in the province of Huambo in central Angola.

He considered his specimens to be from a subspecies of Cisticola emini that had been described by [[Anton Reichenow]] in 1892 and coined the trinomial name Cisticola emini bailunduensis.

The upperparts are dark brown and the underparts are buffish.