Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

While he doesn't face a regional alliance against him of the sort that ousted Mobutu Sese Seko regional governments view his military regime with a mixture of frustration and alarm; they (including new friends such as Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Liberia's Charles Taylor) regard its project to oust Koroma as perverse costly and likely to end in fiasco...

It was Ghana's Jerry Rawlings who then sought support especially from Nigeria for an intervention force to evacuate non-Liberian West Africans trapped in the conflict...

Abuja's chief allies in this were Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Gambian President Yahya Jammeh both of whom were visited by Gen...

The governments in Kampala and Kigali keep in touch with Sassou though Gadaffi Mandela and President Jerry Rawlings; and the USA has a strong presence in Angola...

President Jerry John Rawlings' government is increasingly coming under public attack after a spate of financial controversies...

President Jerry Rawlings has been upset by some of Nigeria's unilateral moves especially since (unlike Abacha) he has to get parliamentary approval for foreign military action...

Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi initially tried to negotiate with the AFRC by telephone...

After three months of indecision and wrangling President Jerry Rawlings has still not produced a full cabinet list...

Notable absentees Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Jerry Rawlings of Ghana both sent their vice-presidents...

Most important now are concerns about a future role for the soldiers if Abacha tries to follow Jerry Rawlings' and Yahya Jammeh's route to civilian politics...