Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

The news broke as President Nelson Mandela was meeting Presidents Robert Mugabe Yoweri Museveni and Omer el Beshir as part of his efforts to get the NIF and SPLA to talk to each other forcing Mandela as the Mail put it 'to do some fast talking'...

And what is the role of Garang's and Mandela's friend President Yoweri Museveni...

The wild poor border regions have never been at peace since Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his National Resistance Army (now the Uganda People's Defence Force UPDF) took power in 1986...

There may also be direct rewards for President Yoweri Museveni's support for Laurent Kabila: secret negotiations on the 'war debt' began at the end of June between Uganda's Vice-President Foreign Minister and former security chief Eriya Kategaya and the Democratic Republic of Congo's Foreign Minister Bizima Karaha...

(Arrests continue including on 7 June of Abdel Basit Abass Hassanein 57 an apolitical paediatrician in fragile health who was badly beaten and held incommunicado in a 'ghost house'); * fear of offending US Muslims and failure to distinguish 'Islamic' from 'Islamist'; * lobbying by some Islamic organisations and individuals; The tough Sudan line stems from three main areas of concern: * Ethiopia (and Eritrea) are viewed as key to stability in the Horn and Uganda (and Rwanda) as key to east and central Africa (dubbed in Paris the policy of the 'Young Princes' - Premier Meles Zenawi Presidents Issayas Aferworki and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Vice-President Paul Kagamé)...

But the ethno-regional tensions underlying CAR and Congolese politics are so entrenched that only conspiracy theorists see the hands of Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's Paul Kagamé actually controlling events notwithstanding Vice-President Kagamé's admission of Rwandan involvement...

Military substance political veneerMany now assume the current ban on political parties will last as long as the AFDL government and that Kabila will tread the path of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his 'no-party' politics (meaning political parties can exist but cannot compete in elections)...

After taking power in Uganda in 1986 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni created another commission to investigate rights violations since 1962: after ten years' work its 1 500-page study brought no action...

New Africans New LabourA debate in the FCO focuses on what officials call the 'New Africans' - Presidents Yoweri Museveni Issayas Aferworki and Meles Zenawi - who were assiduously cultivated by ex- Overseas Development Minister and Foreign Office Minister for Africa the energetic Baroness Lynda Chalker...