Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Cowboy-hatted President Yoweri Museveni has hit the campaign trail already like an American presidential candidate touring the countryside opening showcase investment projects and kissing babies...

• Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni's prosecution of the war against Kabila alongside the RCD is strategic and ideological while the short-term economic gains are comparatively small...

He also speaks frequently to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Eritrea's Issayas Afeworki and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi...

General Salim Saleh half-brother of President Yoweri Museveni; Saleh owns 45 per cent of Saracen Uganda and 25 per cent of Branch Energy’s local operation...

The article claimed that Salim Saleh the UPDF’s most respected general (and brother to President Yoweri Museveni) headed a corrupt clique that had brokered mining deals and that Kazini had launched drunken attacks against the APR in front of leaders of the rebel Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD)...

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...

Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Pasteur Bizimungu of Rwanda did not bother to turn up for a regional summit on ‘Solidarity and Development' scheduled for 15-16 May in Kinshasa: Kabila had to scrap the whole event...

Washington is a different kind of victim: with its theory of the ‘New Africanism' it has seen Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the keys to regional stability and co-chiefs of the coalition against the Khartoum regime along with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda...

Sarbib welcomes what he sees as an ‘African consensus' on liberalisation and growth centred on leaders such as President Yoweri Museveni; even France and some Francophone finance ministers speak approvingly of Uganda...

The 19 April election of Alhaji Nasser Sebaggala as Mayor of Kampala tests President Yoweri Museveni's tolerance of dissent (AC Vol 38 No 23)...