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...
The faction leaders met President Daniel arap Moi in Kenya on 8 April and invited him to officiate at the reopening ceremonies...
There Clinton and President Yoweri Museveni will be co-hosting a mini regional summit at which Presidents Daniel arap Moi Benjamin Mkapa Meles Zenawi and Issayas Aferworki are expected...
The tactical war between President Daniel arap Moi's government and the National Convention Executive Council is on again...
The signs are that President Daniel arap Moi's final term in office will be as troubled as the last two...
And after their hotly disputed poll victories late last year Kenya and Cameroon's Big Men rulers Daniel arap Moi and Paul Biya have to contend with feisty parliaments where some 50 per cent of the representatives are oppositionists...
It is clear that if the presidential and parliamentary elections had been free fair and properly organised and if the opposition had not been chronically divided (AC Vol 39 No 24) Kenyans would have ousted President Daniel arap Moi and his Kenya African National Union...