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BURUNDI - GREAT LAKES AREA / AFRICA:   SINCE ONE MONTH - AN INCREASINGLY POLITICAL AFRICAN UNION; KAMPALA REINFORCES ITS ECONOMY AND FACT FACE WITH THE LRA; TOWARDS THE POLLS 2006 IN DRC CONGO; KIGALI TAKE SA PLACES IN THE AREA OF THE LARGE LAKES; KIKWETE AND ITS APPROACH OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC ONE.

AGNEWS - DAM - NY, 28/06/2006

The AFRICAN continent takes a considerable international importance. In a general way, DARFUR dominates her topicality. Sudan does not want troops of the United Nations on its territory.  But it there in SOMALIA also… the political AFRICAN UNION takes form more and more and is essential like institution interlocutress. One of the signs which does not mislead: The BUSH meeting and SASSOU NGUESSO.  

In Uganda, which one observes, remains without question the partnership with China on the level of the automobile sector. All the same, the sedentary question is of topicality.   The LRA of KONY disturbs while the SOUTH SUDAN tries to play mediation with KAMPALA.

KINSHASA prepares seriously with the elections.  On the one hand the security of the polls 2006, the tension is palpable shows the expulsion of the 32 supposed putschists of it.  First quotas of the European Union (EUROFOR) have just unloaded in Kinshasa in order to reinforce MONUC. Other, SOUTH AFRICA sent the first bundles, like 300 observers. The political debate will start.  President KABILA makes a round in the East of his country.

KIGALI becomes increasingly dynamic in the GREAT LAKES.  Admittedly the genocide of 1994 is a concern major in the daily topicality. The Rwandan government setting enormously on the socio-economic one. Following a bilateral meeting of presidents BUSH and KAGAME in WASHINGTON, the UNITED STATES comes to sign an important trade agreement with this small country of Easthern Africa. Japan has just made a gift in financial assistance for the development of the sector of water and transport.

In TANZANIA, the color is given… S.E KIKWETE begins intensively in the socio-economic field (constructions of the schools, of road axes,…).

In BUJUMBURA, government NKURUNZIZA sets up the structural and sedentary conditions necessary to facilitate a socio-economic development in this first year of the period "post-conflict"  . Negotiations with the FNL/PALIPEHUTU are in hand with DAR…

 

AGNEWS 2006