Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

(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...

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...

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...