One Mahamadou Cissé was the single most influential state official in the last days of Mathieu Kérékou's pre-1990 Marxist military government in Benin...
Ex-President André Kolingba wants power again and is encouraged by the examples of Mathieu Kérékou in Benin Didier Ratsiraka in Madagascar and Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo Brazzaville...
Vol 38 No 24 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Boutros did not turn up for the final press conference; nor did President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin whose country hosted the previous summit...
Vol 38 No 18 |
- BENIN
- NIGERIA
None perhaps is more important to Nigeria than Benin whose President Mathieu Kérékou was among the leaders in Abuja at the end of August for the Ecowas summit where 'trans-frontier criminality' was discussed...
The likely winner he is moreover favoured by neighbouring rulers such as: Abdou Diouf Henri Konan Bédié Lamine Zeroual Gnassingbé Eyadèma Blaise Compaoré Omar Bongo and Mathieu Kérékou...
The likely winner he is moreover favoured by neighbouring rulers such as: Abdou Diouf Henri Konan Bédié Lamine Zeroual Gnassingbé Eyadèma Blaise Compaoré Omar Bongo and Mathieu Kérékou...
Mathieu Kérékou is back in power...
It was Houngbedji' s support that ensured that Mathieu Kérékou won the second round of voting pushing out the Washington-friendly Soglo...
(Mahamane's Beninese friend Nicéphore Soglo refused to talk to the junta but he has since been replaced though more democratically by Mathieu Kérékou)...
The prospect of former dictator Mathieu Kérékou returning to power as elected President worries those who argue that economic liberalisation must go hand-in-hand with democratisation...