Vol 46 No 9 |
- EGYPT
- AFRICA
Côte d'Ivoire's Foreign Ministry has sent furious letters to the Egyptian government and we hear the matter has been raised in private discussions between Mubarak and Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo who has supported Ekra...
Another ADB Vice-President Nigeria's Olabisi Ogunjobi has full personal and political backing from President Olusegun Obasanjo which counts for a lot...
Regional leaders including African Union Chairman Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Niger's Mamadou Tandja swiftly condemned the constitutional coup attempted in the name of Faure Gnassingbé the old dictator's son; Ghana kept quiet...
Calming Nigeria's murderous ethnic tensions and reducing its chronic corruption are the chief declared aims of President Olusegun Obasanjo half way through his second and last term...
The sudden sacking on 22 March of Education Minister Fabian Osuji was well timed to show Nigeria's creditors that President Olusegun Obasanjo's anti-corruption policy is working...
Several ECOWAS Presidents were there including Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo who shares Konaré's criticism of Faure...
Faure Gnassingbé's resignation as acting Head of State on 26 February is a provisional victory for both Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Chairman of the African Union and Mali's former President Alpha Oumar Konaré now Chairman of the AU Commission...
President Olusegun Obasanjo and his team of economic reformers face a moment of truth this year...
A 9 February summit decided to send a heavyweight mission of five Presidents - new ECOWAS leader President Mamadou Tandja of Niger Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali) John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana) and Mathieu Kérékou (Benin)...
The opposition to Jammeh emerged in the closed-door sessions of the summit and was led by Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo who has a strong aversion to coup-making lieutenants...