General Sani Abacha

The Nigerian-led ousting of Major Johnny- Paul Koroma's Freetown junta raises awkward questions for Whitehall's proclaimed ethical foreign policy and its ban on military cooperation with General Sani Abacha's government...

Regularising Freetown's relationship with General Sani Abacha's military government and negotiating the terms of a continued Nigerian presence in Sierra Leone...

The ever resilient Elf- Aquitaine strongly backs Paris' warming relations with General Sani Abacha's military regime in Abuja...

Amid dealing with their local coup plotters General Sani Abacha and Ikimi were infuriated to hear Koroma say in his year's-end broadcast that the 22 April handover date would not be met unless: the Revolutionary United Front leader Corporal Foday Sankoh was released from custody in Nigeria; the number of Nigerian troops in the Ecowas peacekeeping force (Ecomog) was sharply reduced; and the national Sierra Leonean army controlled the disarmament process...

General Sani Abacha is pulling out all the stops to gain maximum political advantage from the latest alleged coup plot...

In the backrooms at Aso Rock one scenario to ensure General Sani Abacha becomes President in August proposes an electoral college instead of a popular ballot Africa Confidential has learned...

Yet such strictures against interference don't deter General Sani Abacha from trying to overthrow Major Johnny Paul Koroma's regime in Sierra Leone a few hundred miles up the coast...

Abdulkarim Adisa and eight other senior officers plotted the violent overthrow of General Sani Abacha lacks credibility...

Whatever caused the death of gaoled Northern military politician Shehu Musa Yar'Adua on 9 December it has sent a powerful message that Northerners can expect no special favours from General Sani Abacha's military regime...

Urged on by General Sani Abacha's government Elf have started drilling a well on the disputed maritime border between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea...