Vol 39 No 22 |
- UNITED NATIONS
On his trip to Kigali in May with the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast he was ambushed diplomatically by the government and Vice-President General Paul Kagame...
Vol 39 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
By 26 August Kabila could count on varying degrees of support from: • Zimbabwe: President Robert Mugabe was the strongest supporter of military backing for Kinshasa and was equally keen to assert his regional leadership credentials at a time of acute domestic unpopularity; Zimbabwe was a major arms supplier to Kabila before and after he gained power and has growing business interests in Congo; • Angola: fearful that Congo's instability will help Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola forces it was persuaded by Mugabe to help shore up Kabila as a means of securing the Congo-Angola border and cutting UNITA supply lines; on the back of Angola's involvement we hear that South Africa's Executive Outcomes are also working with Kabila with one report suggesting they might organise a cross-border attack into rebel-held territory in Eastern Congo from Central African Republic; • Namibia: helped persuade Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos to join the pro-Kabila alliance; is giving logistical support but few if any troops; • Kenya: Daniel arap Moi's government has pledged diplomatic support for Kabila and hasn't ruled out military help; Moi instinctively distrusts any cause backed by Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's General Paul Kagame; • Mozambique: facilitated disguised transhipments of Chinese arms for Congo through Beira corridor to Zimbabwe and on to Lubumbashi; • Tanzania: unease among some ministers about growing Tutsi influence military and diplomatic in the region but is also keen to maintain congenial relations with neighbouring Burundi and Rwanda; it hurriedly withdrew on 24 August some 600 troops and 200 policemen it had sent to Congo for training; • Congo-Brazzaville: has pledged total commitment to Luanda (whose troops help keep President Denis Sassou Nguesso in power) and by extension to Luanda's allies...
President Pasteur Bizimungu and Vice- President and Defence Minister Paul Kagame boycotted a reception for the UN Secretary General in May and Foreign Minister Anastase Gasana publicly rebuked him...
Vol 39 No 11 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Rwanda is also involved in what one US official called the ‘dual mediation' via its Vice-President and Defence Minister Paul Kagame...
Moi and his Kalenjin ruling circle accuse Museveni' s National Liberation Movement of imperial ambitions and especially of sponsoring the 1994 triumph in Rwanda of General Paul Kagame's Front Patriotique Rwandais...
Sendashonga was an obvious target: a Hutu he had belonged to the Tutsi- dominated Front Patriotique Rwandais ; as its trusted Interior Minister he was one of few to dare contradict Vice-President Paul Kagame...
Friends with General Augustin Bizimungu of Rwanda's former army the ex-Forces Armées Rwandaises Tavernier is said to have a ‘grand plan': a contract in CAR as a spearhead to deploy his ‘Red Khmers' against the ‘Black Khmers' (as some French officers call them) of Vice-President Paul Kagame's Armée Patriotique Rwandaise...