Spotlight | Great lakes
Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

The tensions between Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan opposite number Paul Kagame are assuming worrying dimensions and threatening to destabilise the whole of the Great Lakes region. Investigations by the Indian Ocean Newsletter have revealed the extent to which paranoia [...]
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DRC, East Africa
East African Community sets out battle plan for regional force in eastern DRC

While the head of Congolese diplomacy travelled to Arusha to finalise membership of the East African Community, the regional organisation's military leaders are preparing to send troops. The Congolese army chief of staff signed a confidential document with his counterparts detailing it.

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Inner circles | Zambia
Chris Rugari, ZCCM-IH's partner in Mumbwa gold venture, has friends in high places

The decision of state-owned Zambian mining company ZCCM-IH to go into alliance with little-known Array Metals on the Mumbwa gold project might seem initially surprising but Array's vice president, Ugandan businessman Chris Rugari, has access to the corridors of power in Zambia and in his native Uganda.

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