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Junta's Reform Pledge Lifts Hopes for Ivory Coast

Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, 28 December ,1999NAIROBI, Kenya--As life began to return to normal in Ivory Coast on Monday after a largely bloodless Christmas Eve coup, hope grew that there would…
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All Things Considered

JACKI LYDEN, host: It's NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden. The president of the Ivory Coast--or the Cote d'Ivoire, as it's formally known--fled his country today in a plane offered by…
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SDF North American Convention Keynote Address on "DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA: PROSPECTS FOR THE 21st CENTURY" Chris Fomunyoh, Ph.D.

WASHINGTON DC, NOVEMBER 27, 1999 The Chairman of the SDF North American Province Honorable members of the SDF National Executive Committee Members of the SDF / NA Organizing committeeHis…
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NDI's Fomunyoh Rates ACSS Initiative as Smashing Success (He says creating atmosphere of open dialogue was key)

The National Democratic Institute's (NDI's) regional director for Central, Eastern and West Africa has described the first session of the U.S.-African Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) as "a very…
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They Came, They Observed

When observer groups first surfaced on the Nigerian electoral scene to witness the presidential election of June 12, 1993, Nigerians considered the idea an entirely novel one. Today it has grown to…
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NIGERIAN GOVERNORS MEET COURTESY OF U.S. NGO'S SUPPORT

Program participants:Dick Thornburgh, former governor of Pennsylvania and former attorney-general of the United States (right); Carole Hillard, Lieutenant - Governor of the South Dakota (center) and…
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Gabon's Bongo Latest Strongman to Maintain Grip

Libreville, Gabon, Dec. 9 -- Today's declaration of victory for President Omar Bongo extends a pattern in this year of presidential elections in West Africa: After nearly a decade of creeping…
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