Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Last month President Sam Nujoma backed Luanda's onslaught on 'UNITA bandits' straight after a summit at State House Windhoek with Angolan Defence Minister Kundi Paihama Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has another six months as chairman of SADC's security organ (through which he negotiated the endorsement of Zimbabwe's Angola's and Namibia's intervention in Congo-K)...

Then on 4 January President Robert Mugabe loath to give power to a prime minister announced the elections would be held in March - whatever the state of the reforms...

McKinnon shows little desire to confront such veteran bruisers as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Kenya's Daniel arap Moi...

Mazimhaka recently led a delegation to Harare urging President Robert Mugabe to restrain Kabila...

Perhaps the most promising signs are the discreet contacts between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (the leading backer of the forces supporting Congo-Kinshasa President Laurent-Désiré Kabila) and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (the leading backer of the rebel forces)...

As the bill rises the failure of President Robert Mugabe's government to budget accurately for its intervention has caused a new rift with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...

The MDC's powerful lawyers include Tendai Biti who successfully challenged the Law and Order (Maintenance) Act on behalf of the ZCTU and is a member of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyers' Association; David Coltart from Bulawayo once singled out by President Robert Mugabe as among the 'rabble-rousers' who must decide whether to remain in Zimbabwe or not...

The rift is widening as Museveni keeps his lines open to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe who is detested by Rwanda which accuses his army of helping to train ex-Interahamwé fighters and other génocidaires for service in the Congolese army...

In narrow political terms though it ignores reality including next year's parliamentary elections and the rock-bottom unpopularity of President Robert Mugabe's government (AC Vol 40 No 14)...