Bank sources link the French position to the Elysée's anger at growing Ugandan and Anglophone influence in Central Africa; specifically the takeover by Kampala's allies Paul Kagame's Front Patriotique Rwandais in Rwanda and now the success of President Yoweri Museveni's ally – Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre - in Zaïre...
Vol 38 No 8 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Paul Kagame's government in Rwanda for which he negotiates debt relief and concessionary loans...
The government tolerates Nyangoma who is fighting Major Pierre Buyoya's regime but at the same time the influential ex-President Julius Nyerere has known Kabila since the 1960s and is close to the Rwandan strongman General Paul Kagame and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...
