General Sani Abacha

The United States is not pleased that Jammeh gets help from Nigeria's General Sani Abacha and especially keeps close contact with Colonel Moammar el Gaddafi of Libya although Washington has politely ignored recent visits to Tripoli by more US-friendly regional leaders such as Mali's President Alpha Oumar Konaré...

General Sani Abacha's regime may be a pariah for Western and Commonwealth governments but it's determined to win friends in his own region...

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

Taylor's rapprochement with General Sani Abacha of Nigeria Ecowas' (and Ecomog's) dominant member enabled the bloodshed to end...

Chairing the Economic Community of West African States has pushed the reclusive General Sani Abacha into the limelight with Nigeria's neighbours...

AIDS programmes started by previous governments had ground to a halt because of a lack of funding by General Sani Abacha's government Ransome-Kuti said...

The dean of despots Mobutu Sese Seko was chased out in May Sudan's Hassan el Turabi faces coordinated military opposition from north and south Presidents Pascal Lissouba and Ange-Félix Patassé are grimly holding on against armed uprisings and even Nigeria's coup veteran General Sani Abacha has to think twice about plans to win his own presidential election next year...

Even before the full results were announced General Sani Abacha called on Liberians to respect 'the verdict of the people'...

The People's Army clashed with Nigerian troops holding Lungi airport on 9 July just as General Sani Abacha and his Provisional Ruling Council were discussing Sierra Leone...

All the ingredients are there: political uncertainty (about General Sani Abacha's candidacy in next year's elections) economic collapse (fuel shortages and worse poverty than 25 years ago) armed political rivalries (Niger Delta war) and regional crisis (Sierra Leonean coup-makers who have humiliated Abacha AC Vol 38 No 12)...