DAKAR, Senegal -- A president refusing to give up power despite advancing age and legal limits. An opposition crying foul. Young men in the streets throwing rocks at the police while choking on tear gas. That situation, repeated all too frequently at election time in Africa's western bulge, was not supposed to happen in Senegal, a rare part of the...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria arrived in Senegal on Tuesday to mediate the country's political impasse before a contentious presidential election on Sunday. Just minutes before Mr. Obasanjo arrived, the police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators who had set fire to tires over the candidacy of Senegal's two-term president,...
President Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya was named chairman of the African Union on Monday, wresting control of a body he helped found and has long wanted to remake in his pan-African image. His installation as the new head of the 53-member body resembled more of a coronation than a democratic transfer of power. Colonel Qaddafi was dressed in flowing...
Matthew Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo (født 5. marts 1937), yoruba Oluṣẹgun Mathew Okikiọla Arẹmu Ọbasanjọ, translitereret: "Oluse-jUn ObA.san.jO") er en pensioneret general og tidligere præsident i Nigeria. Obasanjo var en karrieresoldat før han tjente sit land to gange som dets leder, et gang som militærleder mellem 13. februar 1976 og 1. oktober 1979 og igen siden 1999, som valgt præsident.