Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The state legislature agreed to open a convention on December seventeenth.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Other than Mr.Museveni and Zambia's President Banda, the only other African Union member state presidents to sign the IDP convention were Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Mohammed Abdelaziz of the territory of Western Sahara,and Somalia's Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23