Robert Gabriel Mugabe

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

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)...

Photographs in the conference centre showed some liberation stars who passed through Algiers in the 1960s and 1970s for military training: Nelson Mandela (pictured with Lieutenant now General Mohamed Lamari) Amilcar Cabral Agostinho Neto Sam Nujoma Robert Mugabe...

Zimbabwe too is determined to fight and President Robert Mugabe is Kabila's mainstay...

He might have become the country's first president when the long struggle against white minority rule ended in 1980 but he was outmanoeuvred by the younger and smarter Robert Gabriel Mugabe...

The 30 foot-high video screen at the other end of the parade ground pictured him smiling broadly with arms around Presidents Robert Mugabe and Yoweri Museveni...