Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

President Hosni Mubarak didn't manage to shift the position of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi when they met on 19 May in the southern Sinai town of Sharm el Sheikh...

In one closed session Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak broke up a slanging match between various protagonists in the Congo-Kinshasa war...

Egypt which some UN officials see as the natural regional leader brings its own baggage to the conference table: its colonial partnership with Britain in ruling Sudan; its absolute opposition to any partition of Sudan or any other mechanism which threatens theNile Waters' status quo; and its conviction that Khartoum was behind the assassination attempt against President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa in July 1995...

And despite public lobbying by the League of Arab States’ Secretary General Ismat Abdel Meguid and more discreet moves by Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Gadaffi believes his Arab allies do nothing to counter the economic sanctions imposed on Libya by the United Nations and insisted upon by the United States...

Egyptian leaders seemed to signal their preference for the former (which France then went around quietly backing) when they hosted a closed meeting with President Hosni Mubarak for El Sadig el Mahdi (Umma Party) Mohamed Osman el Mirghani (Democratic Unionist Party) John Garang (SPLA) and Farouk Abu Eissa (left-wing former Foreign Minister and NDA spokesman)...

In 1995 President Hosni Mubarak blamed Sudan for the attempt on his life in Addis Ababa (AC Vol 38 No 16)...

Even that institutional pillar of non-interference the Organisation of African Unity - which celebrates its 35th birthday this May - has been deafeningly silent in the face of new regional alliances firstly to oust governments in Central Africa and now to overthrow the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum (against which the OAU imposed sanctions after evidence emerged of NIF complicity in the attempted assassination of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in 1996)...

Then soon after the November visit to Cairo by SPLA chief John Garang President Hosni Mubarak (who had met Colonel Garang) improbably announced Khartoum was ‘abandoning terrorism'...

' A sceptical Baha Kikhia faxed President Hosni Mubarak's advisor Usama el Baz – and also Libyan external security chief Moussa Koussa (reigning supreme since Bishari's death) thereby tipping off Tripoli...

By centring power on the Premier's office President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak has shown that he may well not appoint a vice-president the post which he held under President Anwar el Sadat until Sadat's assassination in 1981...

Boutros-Ghali's promotion is viewed as having been at the direct behest of Hosni Mubarak whose ideas on economic reform are strongly influenced by his son Gamal Mubarak head of a small London-based investment house MedInvest...