Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Côte d'Ivoire may have to be dragged to the polls under threat of United Nations sanctions while in Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has a last chance to initiate some real reforms ahead of the elections in 2007...
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria as Chairman of the African Union organised a meeting with Kabila and Kagame who proposed lending Rwandan troops to help Kabila eliminate the Hutu bases; Kabila's Foreign Minister Raymond Ramazani Baya said this amounted to a declaration of war...
Mujahid Dokubo Asari's 'Operation Locust Feast' was supposed to begin on Independence Day 1 October and was effectively a declaration of war on President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and oil companies working in Nigeria (AC Vol 45 Nos 18 & 19)...
Although President Olusegun Obasanjo didn't endorse that move on 20 September he announced a ban on new government contracts for a subsidiary Halliburton Energy Services accusing it of 'failing to cooperate' in resolving the disappearance of radioactive materials from Nigeria in 2002...
Asari claims that President Olusegun Obasanjo's PDP backs the Ateke Tom group and that PDP Governor Odili directly supports Tom...
That contract is now at risk industry sources told Africa Confidential although the final decision on whether to cancel the latest Halliburton contract rests with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo...
They have therefore asked Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to help bring about 'reconciliation' between Mwanawasa and Chiluba...
Attempting to win Khartoum around to the principle of an African monitoring force Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has suggested its primary role would be to monitor the cantonment of the rebel forces and the Janjaweed militias (apparently without putting pressure on the government's formal military forces)...
Nigeria's ADB Vice-President Bisi Ogunjobi has already declared that his bid for the Bank presidency is backed by President Olusegun Obasanjo's government which will host its annual meeting in Abuja next May...
On 1 August in Khartoum Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo played down talk of an African peacekeeping force for Darfur saying that 'for now' the African force protecting AU monitors would be just 300 strong...