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West African politics wins again. Formerly coup-proof Côte d'Ivoire succumbs to a putsch de Noël and coup-prone Nigeria survives a military-orchestrated transition to civilian rule. Business people are much more optimistic than political analysts about Nigeria this year. Much is at stake. Diplomats say gravely that Africa can't afford for Nigeria to fail this time. The upturn in oil and gas prices, Nigeria's huge reserves and President Olusegun Obasanjo's reformist policies are stirring new interest among traders and investors who have kept away from Africa's biggest market for the past two decades....

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Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Military interregnum, Henri Konan Bédié, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, France, Alassane Ouattara, Burkinabé, Malian, Robert Gueï, Senegal, Abdou Diouf, Abdoulaye Wade, Blaise Compaoré, Jacques Foccart, Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta-Mills, Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Foday Sankoh, Charles Taylor, Liberia, putsch de Noël, Sharia, Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire, Front Populaire Ivoirien, Rassemblement des Républicains, Parti Socialiste, Ivoirité, politique des réseaux