Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

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...

A modus vivendi developed but was disturbed by more events beyond US control: * the formation of Sudan Alliance Forces the National Democratic Alliance's choice of armed struggle Sudan People's Liberation Army successes; * NIF support for armed Islamist groups in Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia Uganda; and breaking of diplomatic relations by Asmara and Kampala which with Addis Ababa support Sudan's opposition; * assassination attempt in June 1995 against Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia; * Sudanese involvement in bombing the World Trade Center and other New York bomb threats in 1993: the third big trial of Ramzi Ahmed Yussuf is now opening; * the killing of US troops at Khobar Saudi Arabia followed by public threats by Usama bin Laden still a visitor to Khartoum; * the US Khartoum Embassy was closed in 1996 after specific threats by Abu Nidal's group and 'Afghan Arabs' linked to Bin Laden we hear...

When asked why a lone assassin was sent to Asmara he replied: 'We should not make a mistake again as we did in the attempted killing of the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa...