Mark Vlasic (''Justice for Haiti, via the Swiss,'' Views, Oct. 4) correctly notes the importance of helping developing countries to recover stolen assets, but he fails to stress the critical role played by developing countries themselves. As a managing director of the World Bank, I worked on the Stolen Asset Recovery, or StAR, Initiative from its...
PARIS -- The government of the Maldives wants its money back -- $400 million to be precise. That is the amount that it estimates was looted by its former president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and his associates. Mr. Gayoom dominated politics in the Maldives, a tiny Indian Ocean nation, for 30 years. After winning six successive single-party elections,...
PASTOR DANIEL AJAYI-ADENIRAN is coming for your soul. It doesn't matter if you are black or white, rich or poor, speak English or Spanish or Cantonese. He is on a mission to save you from eternal damnation. He realizes you may be skeptical, put off by his exotic name -- he's from Nigeria -- or confused by his accent, the way he stretches his vowels...
General Sani Abacha (Kano 20. september 1943 – Abuja 8. juni 1998) var nigeriansk militær leder og politiker. Han var præsident i Nigeria fra 1993 til 1998. Han var militær uddannet i Storbritannien og Nigeria, og han trådte ind i det nigerianske forsvar i 1963. Han var aktiv i militærkuppene i 1983 og 1985, og ved det sidste blev han stabschef for hæren. I 1989 blev han Nigerias forsvarsminister.
Han kom til magten i 1993, da han som forsvarsminister gennemførte et militærkup, hvor han gik ind og tog magten i det meget splittede land. Han forbød de politiske partier og indførte diktatur.