Mathieu Kérékou

In Benin the multi-party era began with the resounding defeat of authoritarian leader Mathieu Kérékou in 1991 allowing the emergence of one of the most competitive and free political systems on the continent...

It is now 28 years since a landmark electoral change of power when authoritarian leader Mathieu Kérékou accepted defeat by Nicephore Soglo in free elections...

Confronted by mass protests against his one-party regime in 1989 the then president Matthieu Kérékou consented to a peaceful transition to multi-party politics gracefully accepting defeat at the ballot box...

In 1991 the public rejected the former authoritarian ruler Mathieu Kérékou and in the country once seen as the continent's coup capital Nicéphore Soglo won the first democratic elections...

General (retired) Amoussou has been Armed Forces Chief of Staff and Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Côte d'Ivoire and is a brother of the former heir-apparent to the late President Mathieu Kérékou PSD leader Bruno Amoussou (AC Vol 43 No 24 The old order please)...

He was Finance Minister under President Mathieu Kérékou before joining the International Monetary Fund as Director of its Africa Department in 2002...

In Benin President Yayi Boni emerged victorious in the presidential election last March despite ex-President Mathieu Kérékou’s schemes to hold on to power...

They could starve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) forcing the appointment just before the scheduled elections of a new chairman who decides that a free vote would be impossible under those conditions - a tactic tried unsuccessfully by Benin's reluctantly outgoing President Matthieu Kérékou last year...

election budget - persuaded President Mathieu Kérékou's outgoing government not to cancel the ballot...

President Mathieu Kérékou says his government lacks the $60 mn...