According to reliable reports President Museveni of Uganda is busy lobbying Washington to support the separation of this giant African state of Sudan.
Apparently  he met and succeeded to convince Obama administration  on this leading to the recent  the fact finding mission to South Sudan .
Here is an extracted report  from AFRICA INTELLIGENCE...
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| � | Museveni lobbies in USA for Salva Kiir | 
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 | ���  ��During  his trip to the United States at the end of September, the Ugandan  President argued the case for an independent South Sudan with the  Americans. | 
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| Last August, the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir  and his Ugandan opposite number Yoweri Museveni   came to an agreement for the latter to take the head of an  international campaign to put the case for the independence of South  Sudan, which in their view will be the outcome of the referendum in  January 2011. For its part, the government in Khartoum is tempted to  drag its feet in the run up to the date of the referendum. Its actions  include trying to convince Washington of the necessity to postpone the  referendum on the grounds that it is not technically ready. To  counteract Khartoum�s moves, President Museveni presented his view that  the independence of South Sudan was inevitable to President Barack Obama  and to the Secretary General of theUnited Nations ,Ban Ki Moon  in the United States at the end of September. 
 
For  Museveni, under the terms of the 2005 peace agreement, the government  in Khartoum accepted South Sudan�s right to self determination once and  for all, because his main preoccupation at the time was to oppose the  idea of a secular State for the whole country. In the run-up to the  referendum, Museveni and his close advisers will be directly involved in  the matter, which up to now had been in the charge of the Ugandan  ministry for foreign affairs. Three people are playing an important  political role in Ugandan�s policy on South Sudan: the Minister for  Security, Amama Mbabazi ,  who has concluded cooperation agreements with the South Sudan police  and intelligence services; the Minister for Trade, Colonel Kahinda Otafiire  who is supervising trade with Juba; and the chief of defence forces, General Aronda Nyakairima , who wants to avoid a resurgence of Ugandan rebels in Sudan. |  | 
NOW Kenya being the main broker during the CPA agreement in 2005 seems to be loosing out to Uganda who are seemingly being lined up for  a leading role in this activity.
WHY is  the Kenyan government silent on this and how can they let Uganda take the credit for this? what is going on here?
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