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...Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap Moi, or the U.S. would "drop him like a hot potato." Though his antipathy for Moi is common knowledge, Museveni has lately bent over backward to bring Moi into the East African Cooperation, an off-again, on-again economic pact among Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, and he seems unlikely...
Today, Bragg is a round-faced young man with aconstant flow of talk and the low-slung pants of ahip-hop fan. Friends call him Big Papa, both for arap artist he likes and because "he's got thislittle chubby going on," one says...
...HOUNDED BY ALLEGATIONS OF HUman rights abuses, economic mismanagement and corruption, the odds of winning re-election might seem about as good as the chances of surviving a head-on collision with a train. That, at least, was the opinion of many Kenyans one year ago, when President Daniel arap Moi started his campaign after Western donors cut off development aid, demanding that he abandon his single-party rule and hold an election. Fortunately for Moi, however, the opposition turned out to be so deeply divided that the President emerged the apparent winner in his first electoral encounter...
Cynics in Kenya refer to President Daniel arap Moi's mining interests as "That's mine! That's mine! And that's mine! . . ." Expatriate businessmen estimate that wealthy Nigerians have enough money in personal deposits abroad to pay off the country's entire foreign debt, more than $36 billion. Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko has a personal fortune that has been estimated from $4 billion to $6 billion, not far below the level of the country's external debt. He has isolated himself from his people -- and from gathering political unrest -- aboard a luxury yacht that cruises the Zaire...
...white regime while ignoring oppression elsewhere on the continent. As long ago as 1990, a group including Robinson, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and several black elected officials and labor leaders issued a statement calling for an end to the "violence and tyranny" inflicted by Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's one-party government. Robinson has since repeated the criticism in appearances before U.S. congressional committees, adding Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and other African tyrants to the list...