Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

Yet to the frustration of human rights and anti-corruption campaigners some of whom held demonstrations outside the State Department for the duration of the summit other long-stay leaders such as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré were accorded full diplomatic honours and more discreetly feted by local business groups and lobbyists...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Rwandan President Paul Kagame and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit were present for the signing...

'We remember'Several African presidents and leaders attended the 'Kwibuka 20' ('we remember') ceremonies including Kagame's old comrade Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni who was the only head of state to make an address...

There will also be some difficult discussions between Brussels officials and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni over the recent homophobic laws which prompted several European states to suspend their aid programmes to Kampala...

President Yoweri Museveni and his diplomats insist the troops are in South Sudan as part of a bilateral arrangement between two sovereign states arguing that its intervention prevented far worse losses than the around 10 000 people killed in the conflict so far...

More critically still Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has given no guarantee about withdrawing his troops which are backing Lieutenant General Salva's forces...

In Seoul last year President Park Geun-hye received Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in May and President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique in June...

More critically still Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has given no guarantee about withdrawing his troops which are backing Lieutenant General Salva's forces...

A summit on ACIRC in South Africa in November was attended by just four presidents (South Africa's Jacob Zuma Chad's Idriss Déby Itno Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete)...

The alacrity with which regional leaders such as Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta sprang to the defence of Salva shows how the dynamics of East Africa's new move to regional unity mean mutual respect for leaders above all else...