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Homespun Museveni delivers the big message
Released:  26 November 2007
Yoweri Museveni is a most unusual President. He has a lot of messages to put across and he does this with an endless fund of homespun tales. These days Commonwealth summits must have a theme and this year’s was the transformation of societies.

CHOGM final communiqué released
Released:  25 November 2007
Commonwealth Heads of Government met in Kampala, Uganda between 23 and 25 November 2007 for their biennial meeting

Secretary-General addresses opening ceremony of CHOGM
Released:  24 November 2007
“CHOGM is the place in which our political agenda is set, and from which all our activities flow” – Don McKinnon

Commonwealth a great global good, says next Secretary-General
Released:  24 November 2007
“We are a family of equals, not just a family of nations”

As always at CHOGM, events take control
Released:  22 November 2007
The wily British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, prophet of the “Wind of Change in Africa”, was once asked what represented the greatest challenge to a statesman.

Watch out for those holes in the wall
Released:  22 November 2007
As Ugandan primary schoolchildren dressed in pink danced and sang a message of thanks to Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon a little bit of African history was made.

Pakistan suspended from the Commonwealth
Released:  22 November 2007
"Decision taken in sorrow not in anger" – UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband

Achieving the goals in education
Released:  21 November 2007
Access for disadvantaged groups in the Commonwealth requires multiple interventions

McKinnons tour ‘People’s Space’
Released:  21 November 2007
A great resource for ordinary people, says Commonwealth Secretary-General

Transforming Commonwealth developing countries into developed nations
Released:  21 November 2007
Commonwealth leaders to examine ways to enhance socio-economic and political development