Vol 38 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
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...
Vol 38 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
Vol 38 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
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...
Vol 38 No 10 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The combined African fighting force under Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's General Paul Kagamé and Angola's Chief of Staff General João de Matos is a formidable military machine which after its success in Zaïre might try its strength elsewhere...
Some African states worry this army already has its Otto von Bismarck in Yoweri Museveni...
Bank sources link the French position to the Elysée's anger at growing Ugandan and Anglophone influence in Central Africa; specifically the takeover by Kampala's allies Paul Kagame's Front Patriotique Rwandais in Rwanda and now the success of President Yoweri Museveni's ally – Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre - in Zaïre...
Vol 38 No 8 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Part of this network is Kabila's friendship with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni which has developed over the past decade...
The government tolerates Nyangoma who is fighting Major Pierre Buyoya's regime but at the same time the influential ex-President Julius Nyerere has known Kabila since the 1960s and is close to the Rwandan strongman General Paul Kagame and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...
But in the case of the Harare bellyflop Zimbabwe security's energetic efforts to hush the affair up seem to indicate the consignment had the tacit approval of the '3Ms': Presidents Nelson Mandela Robert Mugabe and Yoweri Museveni...
Vol 38 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Kisase who was close to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni was known to have been critical of the AFDL's military dependence on the Banyamulenge...