And Wade is liable to make foreign policy gaffes; within months of winning the presidency last March  he had managed to offend the governments of both Guinea Bissau and Mauritania  and has since picked a fight with Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 5 | 
            - SIERRA LEONE
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     It was only after intervention by Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo that Konaré switched sides and supported sanctions  albeit with a two-month grace period for Taylor to comply with demands that he end moral and military support for the RUF...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 3 | 
            - FRANCE
 - AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Absentees included Presidents John Kufuor  Thabo Mbeki  Benjamin Mkapa  Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Olusegun Obasanjo...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Other alleged contributors to NPP funds were Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré - both as keen to see the back of Rawlings as Eyadéma  albeit for different reasons...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 42 No 1 | 
            - WEST AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Africa could see some positive results if the Organisation of African Unity's leadership triumvirate - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika  Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - can tap into such connections on issues such as tariffs  debt and drug prices...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 41 No 22 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	      Nor is Ouattara a slouch at African diplomacy: he has strong ties with both Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     If President Olusegun Obasanjo's government can meet the IMF's none-too-exacting benchmarks  it should be able to face down the Paris Club...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Last December  President Olusegun Obasanjo's government convinced the Berne authorities to investigate accounts set up by Abacha and his allies  and a team of investigators started compiling dossiers documenting the flow of funds from Nigeria to Switzerland and London...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation plans  although behind schedule  are gathering momentum as an expensive government roadshow tours Western capitals  wooing foreign investors...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    President Olusegun Obasanjo  a Yoruba  is a Nigerian first...