Vol 37 No 3 | SIERRA LEONE Big sister's olive branch 2nd February 1996 Brigadier Maada Bio wants a family reconciliation to help end the rebel war Freetown may be stumbling into a peace deal of sorts with the rebels it has been fighting for the last four years. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio and his...
Vol 37 No 3 | NIGER The clocks go back 2nd February 1996 Africa's second coup of the year in Niamey had been brewing as long as its first in Freetown. Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Barré Mainassara, the former army Chief of...
Vol 37 No 2 | GHANA Rolling with the punches 19th January 1996 Vice-President Arkaah's claim that President Rawlings beat him up helps the opposition Whatever happened at the 28 December Cabinet meeting at State House, it is helping the opposition's campaign for this year's elections. According to President Jerry Rawlings' supporters, his...
Vol 37 No 2 | SIERRA LEONE A curious coup 19th January 1996 Brigadier Julius Maada-Bio’s announcement that he will not postpone elections scheduled for 26 February following his 16 January coup against Captain Valentine Strasser has several caveats. Most important...
Vol 37 No 1 | SIERRA LEONE Improbable poll 5th January 1996 Prospects that the elections will be held, as scheduled, on 26 February are diminishing. The major parties contesting the poll remain in confusion, much of the logistical work...
Vol 7 No 3 | NIGERIA The change is permanent 4th February 1966 1966 was the year for military coups, in both French and English-speaking West and Equatorial Africa. The most serious by far for us was that in Nigeria Nigeria has changed for ever. It has got a military regime which the great mass of the population has accepted – in the South and among intellectuals, with... READ FOR FREE