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Lobby, Speke Resort Munyonyo, August 8.
There is a silence in the final declaration of the “extra-ordinary summit” of the Great Lakes as the curtains came down on Wednesday evening. It was not the departure, without much fanfare, of the Presidents. This summit was not big on delegations. The last time I was here for a large summit was the African Union one, one of the last that Libya’s Muamur Gadaffi attended- rock star style with bulky guards wearing sunglasses. Indeed Malawi’s Bingu Wa Mutharika and Ghana’s Atta Mills, whose funeral starts today in Accra were alive. Then a circus atmosphere seized this resort with rough hands choking it with the extravagance of ceremony and pomp that caricaturize the African big man.
When this conference started, its host Museveni started by rejecting the mandatory “Opening Ceremony” preferring to usher the President’s especially the two men who caused this meeting Messrs…
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I WAS THERE 
Posted on August 8, 2012
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