In just 100 days between April and July 1994, some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were slaughtered, in massacres orchestrated and inflamed by the authorities.

The father-of-four was born into a modest family of farmers in remote Ndiaganiao, a village 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the capital Dakar

The University's Public Relations Officer has denied being aware of the licences, which according to the 11 mining companies, were issued to them by the Federal Government.

Museveni brushed off the speculation but Kainerugaba rose swiftly through Ugandan army ranks, training at Britain's elite military academy Sandhurst, as well as in Egypt, the United States and South Africa.