Andrew Morton's much-vilified biography of Daniel arap Moi (AC 39 No 23) has further lifted the veil on Kenya's first family...
package with far softer conditions than it is imposing on President Daniel arap Moi's government in Kenya ...
We hear human rights activists in Kenya Liberia Nigeria Togo and Ghana are already preparing charge sheets against several past and current leaders: Daniel arap Moi Charles Taylor Gen...
Led by President Daniel arap Moi and his sons it presents Moi as a caring statesman who did great things for his country during his 24-year rule from 1978 until his (scheduled) retirement in 2002...
Politically it enabled President Daniel arap Moi to put on a new face as a champion of democratic constitutional reform...
Nyachae's reputation as a political heavyweight (and possible successor to Daniel arap Moi) and a credible economic reformer is at stake in the negotiations...
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 Daniel arap Moi who rarely talks about his future in public was addressing the Ugandan Manufacturers' Association in Kampalaon 19 May ...
Yet nobody was celebrating not even President Daniel arap Moi's Khartoum-friendly government...