Yet there are close links between the governing South West Africa People's Organisation (AC Vol 41 No 2) and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and President Sam Nujoma has loudly supported President Robert Mugabe's demands that Britain compensate the white farmers...
After considering all the African factors Mbeki has concluded that the only way to tackle the regional crisis is by trying above all to persuade the combatants in the Congo and Angola - Mugabe Laurent Kabila Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos and Namibia's Sam Nujoma - that they would gain real economic and political advantages by enforcing the Lusaka II peace accord agreed in Kampala last month...
Mbeki was the organiser of the summit meeting between himself Namibia's Sam Nujoma Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano and Mugabe at Victoria Falls on Good Friday...
Vol 41 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Presidents Robert Mugabe (and his 11 000 or so Zimbabwean troops) José Eduardo dos Santos (and some 5 000 Angolan troops) and Sam Nujoma (around 2 500 Namibian troops) have been the backbone of the war against the rebels supported by Rwanda and Uganda...
Last month President Sam Nujoma backed Luanda's onslaught on 'UNITA bandits' straight after a summit at State House Windhoek with Angolan Defence Minister Kundi Paihama Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...
Nobody expected President Sam Nujoma or his ruling South West African People's Organisation to lose the elections but SWAPO's victory was impressive...
There are disputes in the region in which SADC's role ranges from negligible to highly ambivalent: Angolan troops and aircraft have moved into northern Namibia with President Sam Nujoma's permission to launch attacks against the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (which threatens reprisals against Windhoek); tensions between Angola and Zambia persist over Lusaka's failure to stop (at least) UNITA getting supplies through its territory; in Lesotho Pretoria's military intervention in late 1998 still rankles and Basotho nationalist sentiment will be strong in the run-up to this year's elections; Nujoma is watching closely Mishake Muyongo's 'liberation' movement in the Caprivi Strip; in Mozambique the refusal of the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana to accept the victory of the governing Frente Nacional de Libertação de Moçambique in December's election detracts from the country's rapid economic growth and new investment...
The result was to divide between German and British rule the domains of the old Lozi kingdom; some people in the Strip named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's successor and a few Zambians still dream of reuniting the Barotse peoples Most people believe there is little risk of major ethnic conflict but the behaviour of President Sam Nujoma's South West Africa People's Organisation government in the face of a separatist threat is worrying...
CANU then merged with Sam Nujoma's South West Africa People's Organisation and Muyongo became its Vice-President...
Photographs in the conference centre showed some liberation stars who passed through Algiers in the 1960s and 1970s for military training: Nelson Mandela (pictured with Lieutenant now General Mohamed Lamari) Amilcar Cabral Agostinho Neto Sam Nujoma Robert Mugabe...
Vol 40 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Looking for a way out of the Congo war Presidents Robert Mugabe Sam Nujoma and José Eduardo dos Santos emerged grim-faced from their Kinshasa summit with President Laurent- Désiré Kabila on 1 March (AC Vol 40 No 2)...