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	Fradique de Menezes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fradique de Menezes (born March 21, 1942) is the President of São Tomé and Príncipe (2001 - 2003, 2003 - present).
		Fradique de Menezes was born on the island of São Tomé in 1942, before São Tomé and Príncipe got its independence from Portugal.
		He had to renounce his Portuguese citizenship before he was allowed to run.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fradique_de_Menezes (184 words)

	Freedom in the World 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		De Menezes dissolved the government in 2001 and called for early parliamentary elections after he and the former prime minister disagreed on the government’s composition.
		De Menezes appointed a new prime minister, the economist Maria das Neves, who formed a coalition government and is the country’s first female prime minister.
		De Menezes called on parliament to introduce laws against vote buying, which he said was rampant in the March parliamentary election.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2003/countryratings/saotome-principe.htm (795 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Sao Tome and Principe
		Fradique de Menezes, a wealthy cocoa exporter, was elected in July 2001 with 65% of the vote.
		Mr De Menezes is the son of a Portuguese father and Sao Tomean mother and had dual citizenship before dropping his Portuguese citizenship so that he could qualify as a presidential candidate.
		Mr De Menezes is the country's third president, after Miguel Trovoada, who served two five-year terms, the maximum permitted by the constitution (1990-2001) and Pinto da Costa (1975-1991).
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064541.stm (522 words)

	afrol News: Sao Tomé announces early elections
		President Menezes had to give into the claims of the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé and Principe (MLSTP) and form a new government coalition of the nine parties represented in Parliament.
		Menezes, first trying to exclude the traditional MLSTP power block, saw no other solution than a path of national unity, according to local analysts.
		The forming of a majority "Government Pact" and the announcement of early elections in March thus was a compromise launched by President Menezes after he on Friday had held talks with political parties aimed at overcoming the political crisis.
	www.afrol.com /News2001/stp006_govt_pact.htm (620 words)

	Sao Tome junta to name new regime as mediators scurry to restore ousted one
		Pereira hinted in his televised address at a possible return to power of Fradique de Menezes, the businessman elected president of the west African archipelago of 140,000 inhabitants in July 2001, who was out of the country when the putschists launched their coup on Wednesday.
		There were "still some issues that have to be discussed" concerning de Menezes returning to power, said Pereira, but the deposed government, which he described as "incompetent and corrupt", would have to remain on the sidelines.
		But the Sao Tome leader has insisted that efforts to restore his rule will initially focus on negotiation and diplomatic pressure, and his media adviser, Guillaume Neto, told AFP that Friday's talks would not deal with possible military action "at all" and that the focus of efforts would continue to be diplomatic.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bb/Qsaotome-coup.RCEx_DlH.html (673 words)

	São Tomé and Príncipe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The candidate backed by the Independent Democratic Action Party, Fradique de Menezes, was elected in the first round and inaugurated on September 3.
		An attempted coup d'état by a few members of the military and the (mostly representative of former São Toméan volunteers from the apartheid-era) in July 2003 was reversed by international, including American, mediation without bloodshed.
		In September 2004, President de Menezes dismissed the Prime Minister and appointed a new cabinet, which was accepted by the majority party.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/S%E3o_Tom%E9_and_Pr%EDncipe (2339 words)

	Sao Tome e Principe Homepage
		President de Menezes promised to salvage the reputation of his country, after signing a deal on Wednesday with the leaders of last week's bloodless coup.
		Fradique de Menezes, who was in Nigeria during the 16 July rebellion, met junta members for an hour soon after returning home, the Reuters news agency reported.
		Mr de Menezes was accompanied for his homecoming by the Nigerian president, who declared the talks with coup leaders an example for solving future conflicts.
	www.stome.com /coupetat/bbc24.html (587 words)

	Peacewomen Home Page
		Menezes who fired Gabriel Costa from the prime minister's job last week, said in a television address to the nation that he had asked Neves, a 44-year old economist to form a new government.
		She was expected to begin consultations to form a government of national unity on Friday with both her MLSTP party and other parties with seats in the 55-member parliament, Lusa reported on Friday.
		De Menezes had appointed Costa to head a coalition government after elections on 3 March left the country's 55-seat parliament without a majority party.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/october/saotome.html (216 words)

	CARPE Congo Basin News Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Menezes, a wealthy businessman, was elected president of the former Portuguese colony in July.
		Menezes had wrangled with the party over who should be prime minister.
		Menezes had been a lawmaker for the Independent Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party.
	carpe.umd.edu /congo_basin_news/news_article.asp?article=105 (267 words)

	Mediators happy with return to order in Sao Tome after coup
		Under the deal reached Wednesday, deposed President Fradique de Menezes was allowed to return to office in return for an amnesty for the coup leaders and government concessions on greater transparency and power-sharing.
		During the negotiations with the mediators, the rebel leaders had demanded solutions to the widespread problem of poverty on the islands and the issue of how to manage Sao Tome's unexploited oil reserves which could transform the country.
		De Menezes was deposed on July 16 in a bloodless coup by military officers, who took advantage of his absence on a visit to Nigeria.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/do/Qsaotome-coup.R1N6_DlR.html (250 words)

	Sao Tome's P.M. And Government Are Dismissed
		De Menezes has asked the prime minister`s party, which won the last parliamentary elections, to present a new prime minister, the source added Wednesday.
		Das Neves, who is on the other side of the political spectrum to the head of state, became prime minister in October 2002 and returned to office at the head of a reshuffled coalition government after a military coup bid which began and ended peacefully in July 2003.
		The prime minister has for months been engaged in a power struggle with De Menezes over the management of the island nation of scarcely 140,000 people, which is deeply in debt but has been found to be sitting on oil reserves worth developing.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=27212 (584 words)

	Hopes rise for return of elected government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Mozambique, President Joaquim Chissano, the chairman of the African Union, said President Fradique de Menezes, who was in Nigeria at the time of the coup, would probably fly home in the next day or two.
		A group of military officers backed by the small Christian Democrat Front party seized power in a bloodless coup on July 16, accusing Menezes and his government of corruption and keeping the islands' 170,000 inhabitants in grinding poverty at a time when the country was on the verge of an oil boom.
		Menezes' government has negotiated a deal to share the proceeds of any oil found in offshore waters to the north of Sao Tome with nearby Nigeria.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=35526 (773 words)

	Coup in Island State With Big Oil Reserves [Sao Tomé and Principé] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, Menezes has been accused of corruption in his dealings with oil companies, which are still waiting to hear the results of a tender for exploration and production rights launched earlier this year.
		Menezes, a wealthy cocoa exporter, was elected president with 65 percent of the vote in September 2000.
		Menezes sounds a little problematic - there was no mention of his politics, but his firing of four prime ministers, dissolving Parliament and refusing a recall vote doesn't sound good.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/947616/posts (3318 words)

	De Menezes Restored to Power in Sao Tome
		de Menezes who was attending the sixth Sullivan Summit holding in Abuja.
		As part of the negotiated deal brokered by Nigerian and African diplomats, a special session of parliament was convened for the purpose of granting immunity from trial to the conspirators.
		De Menezes walked into his office Wednesday July 24 with fulsome praise for President Obasanjo and the Nigerian people for what he described as “dogged diplomatic efforts” to return him to power.
	www.nigeriafirst.org /printer_835.shtml (416 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		President Olusegun Oba-sanjo and visiting President of Sao Tome and Principe, Fradique De Menezes, yesterday signed a joint declaration regarding transparency and governance in the Joint Development Zone between both countries.
		Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Saidu Samaila Sambawa, who presented the declaration to the two presidents at the signing ceremony which took place at Aguda House, stated that the agreement was meant to ensure transparency in payments, expenditure and other dealings in the transactions in the development zone.
		Fradique De Menezes noted that as a new entrant into the oil business, his country is highly concerned about capacity building and consolidation of the existing manpower development programme which has seen many students from Sao Tome acquiring knowledge in various fields in Nigeria.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/06/27/20040627news03.html (946 words)

	Oil minister resigns as controversy dogs award of second offshore block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Menezes, meanwhile, has been accused of taking money from interests close to the Nigerian-controlled company in the past.
		This row simmers on and has forced the president to take a back seat in deciding how offshore blocks should be allocated to competing oil companies, as he prepares his campaign to run for a second five-year term in 2006.
		Menezes announced at the weekend that he would stand down from Sao Tome's National Petroleum Council, which is charged with recommending which bids should be accepted.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=47181 (962 words)

	Sao Tome president denies allegation of dissolving parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LUANDA, March 12 (Xinhuanet)—Sao Tome President Fradique de Menezes has denied the allegation that he intends to dissolve the parliament and call early elections to resolve Sao Tome and Principe's festering government crisis.
		de Menezes said on Thursday night, shortly before meeting with Prime Minister Maria das Neves, according to a report reaching here on Friday from Sao Tome.
		The two ministers are senior members of MDFM, which is closely allied to de Menezes, while the prime minister belongs to the biggest government party—Sao Tome and Principe Liberation Movement (MLSTP).
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/35/188.html (278 words)

	CNN.com - Coup leaders to meet Nigeria envoy - Jul. 17, 2003
		The coup took place while President Fradique de Menezes, pictured during last year's elections, was away on a trip, Lusa reported.
		Deposed President Fradique de Menezes, a close ally of Obasanjo, speaking in Abuja, Nigeria, was quoted by AP as saying, "I am now making a strong appeal to all democrats, world leaders and African leaders to help stop this kind of procedure."
		Menezes, a wealthy former businessman and lawmaker, was elected to a five-year term as president in July 2001.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/07/17/saotome.coup (508 words)

	Sao Tome President Asks Ex-labour Minister To Form Government
		While D'Almeida is one of three vice presidents of the Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tome and Principe (MLSTP), which has a narrow majority in the national assembly, he also comes from the island of Principe, whose inhabitants have complained of being marginalised by people from Sao Tome.
		Sources said that De Menezes wanted a new government set up quickly in the country of scarcely 140,000 people, which is deeply in debt but stands to become richer on the strength of recently discovered viable oil reserves.
		De Menezes has reportedly consulted politicians and leading social figures who told him they would rather see a new reshuffled government than an early general election, since the country is due soon to open talks with oil companies.
	www.turkishpress.com /turkishpress/news.asp?ID=27445 (661 words)

	Lecture by President Fradique de Menezes
		President de Menezes' speech will be based on one given earlier this week in Washington, DC.
		President Fradique de Menezes was sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe on September 3rd, 2001.
		Born in the village of Madalena on the island of Sao Tome in 1942, when it was still a colony of Portugal, he attended primary school in Sao Tome and later graduated from the Free University of Brussels.
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /cgsd/events/menezes.htm (309 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The issue of the return of deposed president Fradique de Menezes to the country was a key item on the agenda.
		TEXT: Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira and other members of the military junta have met with an international delegation that has traveled to Sao Tome and Principe to help negotiate the restoration of political stability to the islands.
		Central to the discussion is the prospect of returning deposed president Fradique de Menezes.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Jul2003/scripts/2be52c73.html (191 words)

	afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
		President Menezes on Thursday vetoed the draft Constitution that was to have solved the years of unclear power relations between him and Parliament.
		The main differences between the parliamentary majority and President Menezes apply to the powers to be given to the Head of State.
		Mr Menezes made use of his constitutional powers and appointed a government close to him, but ignoring the parliamentary majority of the MLSTP - the islands' traditional ruling party.
	www.afrol.com /html/News2003/stp003_constitution_crisis.htm (793 words)

	CBS News \| Coup In Sao Tome \| July 16, 2003 15:07:44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		President Fradique de Menezes was out of the country, on a private visit to Nigeria.
		Sporadic gunshots were heard throughout the morning in the capital, Sao Tome, though it was not clear whether the shots were from fighting or were fired into the air as a warning.
		In January, Menezes revoked a decree that called for early elections and the dissolving of Parliament after striking a deal with lawmakers eager to trim his powers.
	newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /archives/2003-07-18-08-25-37/web/NBproxy.cgi?sentence=2540 (887 words)

	29 July 2001 Presidential Election
		Incumbent Miguel Trovoada was constitutionally barred from participating in the election having served the maximum of two five-year terms.
		The two top contenders for the position were Fradique de Menezes, a wealthy businessman, and Manuel Pinto da Costa, former President and founder of the former single-party, the MLSTP-PSD.
		The election, deemed free and fair by international observers, was won in the first round by Menezes.
	saotome-principe.tripod.com /elections_2001.html (108 words)

	Oil-Driven Sao Tome Gets New Premier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		President Fradique de Menezes named the head of the central bank, Maria do Carmo Silveira, as his new prime minister.
		de Menezes last year on how to make oil a boom rather than a curse, says the president has very little room to maneuver.
		de Menezes just got assurances Sao Tome will get the signature bonus money of about $50 million, major oil companies did not show any interest in the second round of bidding.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-06-08-voa28.cfm?textmode=1 (437 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So Tomé and Príncipe's president, Fradique de Menezes, was one of 10 African leaders George W Bush met at the United Nations the day after the US president, addressing the UN General Assembly, delivered his ultimatum to Saddam Hussein over admitting UN weapons inspectors to his country.
		Last month, De Menezes was quoted as saying that his country had reached an agreement with the US over a naval base.
		De Menezes may have revealed a little too much for Washington's comfort.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2002/09/22/business/news/news03.asp (1052 words)

	The Earth Institute at Columbia University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On December 29, 2004, São Tomé and Príncipe President Fradique de Menezes signed a law that establishes a new international standard for transparency and control of oil revenues.
		I congratulate President de Menezes and the National Assembly on this effort.
		The law incorporates the transparency principles adopted by President de Menezes and President Obasanjo of Nigeria in the Abuja Joint Declaration, issued in July 2004, which among other things requires public disclosure of receipts from oil companies in unprecedented detail.
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /news/2005/story01-07-05.html (717 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		FREEOWN, Jul 16 (IPS) - Army officers seized power in the tiny West African state of Sao Tome and Principe Wednesday, while President Fradique de Menezes was away on a private visit to Nigeria.
		But President Menezes, a wealthy man with a huge business empire that stretches from Africa to Europe, has been leaning more to the Americans.
		Menezes has been paying frequent ”official” visits to the United States.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=19265 (595 words)

	Sao Tome and Principe
		On July 29, Fradique de Menezes, supported by the Independent Democratic Alliance (ADI), was elected President for a 5-year term in an election deemed generally free and fair by international observers.
		In September President Menezes accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Guilherme Posser da Costa and the MLSTP government.
		On July 29, Fradique de Menezes, supported by the ADI, was elected President for a 5-year term.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8399.htm (2549 words)

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