Robert Gabriel Mugabe

The internecine disputes played out in the provincial party elections of 28 November have added frisson this year because of growing doubts about President Robert Mugabe's ability to hang on until the 2002 elections...

Until he managed to get both Mandela and Robert Mugabe to the same breakfast meeting in Durban during the Non-Aligned Movement summit in August there had been hardly any communications between the South African and Zimbabwean leaders...

2 million people which is why Kabila persuaded President Robert Mugabe to send Zimbabwean forces there...

Gécamines officials say the Kbabankola deal involved four parties: Congo’s Minister of State for the Economy Pierre-Victor Mpoyo; Mnangagwa; Billy Rautenbach; and someone representing ‘the interests of President Robert Mugabe’...

Anyway there is no love lost between President Robert Mugabe and President Nelson Mandela despite a SADC attempt to make peace between them...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is close to Malaysia's Premier Mahathir Mohamad; their political style is similar as are their economic and social views...

South Africa's and Botswana's military intervention in the mountain kingdom follows a public row among SADC members over the decision by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos to send troops and air power to prop up Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

Yet President Robert Mugabe is unlikely to be asking for their votes again...

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...