Like fellow dinosaurs such as Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Zaïre's late Mobutu Sese Seko Bongo (in power since 1968) was shocked by his marginalisation by Paris and Washington...
Vol 40 No 20 |
- BURKINA FASO
He is certainly less likely to listen to Paris than for example Gabon's Omar Bongo Senegal's Abdou Diouf or Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
Second place will probably be won by veteran Colonel (Retired) Mamadou Tandja MNSD President backed by Togo'sPresident Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
The pact commits General Gnassingbé Eyadéma to holding fresh parliamentary elections next year and then stepping down in 2003 (which he was scheduled to do anyway)...
What made Hassan different from Africa's other absolutists (such as his pupils and friends former Zaïre's Mobutu Sese Seko and Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma) was his enduring ability to manage change and make himself useful to countries more powerful than his own...
Vol 40 No 16 |
- SIERRA LEONE
He turned up at the Lome signing with friends Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and was praised as a force for regional stability by his new UN and Western friends...
Vol 40 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
There is an African rhythm; it must be respected' he told a group of African journalists before going to meet Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma whose regime has one of the worst human rights records in Africa...
Presidents Paul Biya Lansana Conté and Gnassingbé Eyadéma all enjoyed dubious presidential victories (1997 1998 1998)...
Longer standing coup-makers such as Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Gambia's Yahya Jammeh whose elections and attempts to legitimise their rule haven't won international acceptance are off the hook...
Vol 40 No 11 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Meanwhile on 21 May host Togo refused entry to Amnesty International Secretary General Pierre Sané who had been due to meet President Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
Key to UNITA’s success has been the retraining of officers in Morocco (several hundred Moroccan soldiers are said to be helping with logistics and communications in the north-east following meetings in 1998 between Jonas Savimbi and King Hassan II) and help from Francophone sympathisers such as Togo’s Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré with arms procurement and transshipment...