Vol 47 No 7 | BENIN Twilight of the chameleon 31st March 2006 A clear and fairly clean win for Yayi Boni ends the Kérékou era Intense pressure from domestic opinion and from the European Union - which threatened cuts in aid and promised US$4 million towards the $6 mn. election budget - persuaded President...
Vol 43 No 24 | BENIN The old order please 6th December 2002 Local elections may show how the land lies as parties prepare for the post-Kérékou era With one eye to politics after President Mathieu Kérékou departs, a significant proportion of notables are standing in the country's first communal and municipal elec...
Vol 43 No 2 | BENININTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Bio's bio 25th January 2002 Benin's Finance Minister, Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, will take over as the International Monetary Fund's Africa Department chief next month. He was once tipped as a potential prime mini...
Vol 42 No 6 | BENIN Whose masquerade? 23rd March 2001 The presidential election has turned to farce since two leading candidates pulled out of the second round of voting claiming fraud. President Mathieu Kérékou emerged ...
Vol 41 No 13 | BENIN Kérékou, no coup 23rd June 2000 Despite economic woe, the Beninese may give President Kérékou yet another chance Spiralling fuel price rises, a troublesome cotton privatisation and a strong whiff of institutional corruption mean President Mathieu Kérékou should worry about his r...
Vol 41 No 4 | BENIN Watching and waiting 18th February 2000 President Mathieu Kérékou has kept his head down amid celebrations of his overthrow ten years ago. His friends say he developed humility when he became a Catholic while out of offi...
Vol 40 No 4 | BENIN Jet set and match 19th February 1999 The latest leader to succumb to the need for personal air transport is President Mathieu Kérékou, who has secured three billion CFA francs to buy a second-hand person...
Vol 38 No 18 | BENINNIGERIA Cross-border crimes 12th September 1997 As pressure mounts on Nigeria's military regime, Abacha tackles his border problems Chairing the Economic Community of West African States has pushed the reclusive General Sani Abacha into the limelight with Nigeria's neighbours. None, perhaps, is more important t...
Vol 37 No 9 | BENIN General Chameleon 26th April 1996 Minority parties helped return Kérékou to power with some help from his old friends Mathieu Kérékou is back in power. Benin's electors preferred the strongman they once rejected to Nicéphore Soglo, the economic reformer whose policies brought them scant rewards. ...
Vol 37 No 6 | BENIN Born-again poll 15th March 1996 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 democratisati...