/ 27 December 1998

MUSEVENI FLIES TO LIBYA

UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni defied UN sanctions and flew to Libya on Sunday, meeting President Moamer Gadhafi to discuss the DR-Congo conflict.

The day before, Museveni’s bitter enemy, DR-Congo President Laurent Kabila, flew home after two days of talks with Gadhafi, starting on Christmas Day.

Libya in September offered its services to help settle the conflict in the DRC, where countries drawn into the war include Uganda and Rwanda on the side of mainly Tutsi rebels in the east, and Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and Chad backing Kabila.