Morocco (wanting to oblige President Hosni Mubarak who was keen for Cairo to be the venue) was placated by its inclusion as an organiser of the meeting along with Algeria Egypt South Africa Togo (next OAU Chair) Burkina Faso (last OAU Chair) and the OAU Secretariat...
Its favourite target Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak loudly declared his support for Omer against Turabi (whom Egypt had publicly blamed for the attempt to murder Mubarak in Addis Ababa in 1995)...
Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e: Advisor Peace Affairs (nc): agriculture graduate U of California at Davis United States; Iran-trained security officer made major general and head internal then external security early 1995; officially replaced August 1995 after assassination attempt on President Hosni Mubarak as sop to Egypt; secretly visited Britain 1999; Group of 10...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
In Egypt new Premier Atef Obeid (AC Vol 40 No 24) will come under more fire for the slow pace of economic reform despite support from President Hosni Mubarak...
Egypt though seems to think it's backing a band of ideology-free soldiers fighting Turabi whom it publicly condemned for 1995's attempt on President Hosni Mubarak (when it also showed its dislike of Nafi'e)...
Giza Governor Maher el Gindy for example erected a pasteboard obelisk in Galaa Square just across the Nile (AC Vol 40 No 12) from central Cairo bearing a profile of President Hosni Mubarak with reliefs symbolising what the state press likes to call 'his achievements': wheat for agriculture a tank for military strength and a satellite dish for development...
• Mohammed Tantawi Minister of Defence and State (junior) Minister for Military Production: career army officer; said to be ill and is seen as uncharismatic (unlike for example 1980s Defence Minister Mohammed Abu Ghazala purged after becoming a threat to Hosni Mubarak)...
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 met Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in May and persuaded him to attend the summit...
Ahmed el Dabi: General; officially replaced Nafi'e Ali as external security boss after the attack on President Hosni Mubarak; then El Dabi officially replaced by Qutbi el Mahdi in November 1996; still said to be in security...
Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e: veteran NIF; Agriculture and Forests Minister; previous (and believed to be present) security supremo officially removed in aftermath of 1995 assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; ex-U of K agriculture lecturer; trained in Iran in mid-1980s...