Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

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)...

Among the militants involved in that operation were Uganda's current President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Vice-President Paul Kagamé who have since taken Nyerere's interventionist doctrine much further...

President Yoweri Museveni's government pioneered the ringfencing of social spending which directs savings from debt relief into a health and education fund...

Nonetheless he still has French President Jacques Chirac's backing though some in France's Foreign Ministry aren't so keen seeing him as a Francophone version of Uganda's Yoweri Museveni...

Helped by Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni the trio set the style for the summit: more energetic peacemaking in the Horn a tougher line against putschists and a stronger African voice in the UN and the World Trade Organisation...

He brought Congo-K's Laurent Kabila and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni together (having financed both their military campaigns) in December and May after which both announced they'd agreed a ceasefire in the Congo war...

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...

Britain's tilt towards Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame has plenty of critics even inside Whitehall...

More of an innovator than Chalker Short is noticeably less sympathetic towards the 'New Africans': Yoweri Museveni Paul Kagame Meles Zenawi and Issayas Afeworki...

In Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania on 9 April Kabila said he was ready to talk to the rebels; but in Luanda the previous day he had insulted their two main backers Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda calling them 'Central Africa's Milosevics'...