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  Togo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Togo was split between the British and the French by League of Nations mandates after World War I ended in 1918.
President Sylvanus Olympio, who took office as soon as Togo gained independence in 1960, was overthrown by 626 Togolese veterans of the French army.
To the north Togo is bound by Burkina Faso.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Togo.htm   (1774 words)

  
 Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The history of Liberia as a political entity begins with the arrival of the fl American settlers — the Americo-Liberians, as they were to be known — who established a colony of “free men of color” on its shore in 1822 under the auspices of the American Colonization Society.
In late 1989, a civil war began, and in September 1990 Doe was ousted and killed by the forces of faction leader Yormie Johnson and members of the Gio tribe.
The war ended in 1996, and a prominent warlord, Charles Taylor, was elected as President in 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberia   (1380 words)

  
 Comoros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Colonel Azali Assoumani seized power in a bloodless coup in April 1999, overthrowing Interim President Tadjiddine Ben Said Massounde, who himself had held the office since the death of democratically elected President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim in November, 1998.
This federal presidency is rotated between the islands' presidents.
Elections were held in 2004 where federal president Azali suffered a major setback by only winning 6 of the 18 seats in the National assembly, the other going to the supporters of the presidents of the semi-autonomous islands.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/comoros.html   (781 words)

  
 Ghana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It borders Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo to the east, and borders the Gulf of Guinea to its south.
The president of the republic is elected for 7 years by the parliament sitting jointly with a small number of regional delegates.
The President of the Confederation is elected from the seven.
www.fambinders.ch /GH.CH.IT-INFO.htm   (3596 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Prime Minister of Togo
Nicolas Grunitzky (1913-1969) was the second president of Togo.
Koffi Sama (born 1944) was the Prime Minister of Togo, from 29 June 2002 until 9 June 2005.
Lists of office-holders This page contains a list of presidents of Togo.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prime-Minister-of-Togo   (1043 words)

  
 [23 Sep 1997]: DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL
The list now included 17 harmful pesticides and five industrial chemicals, which were part of what was known as the Prior Informed Consent Procedure, or PIC, jointly monitored by the FAO and UNEP, in which 154 countries were currently participating.
Udovenko, the Assembly President, was trying to preside over most of the general debate right now because he wanted to hear, personally, the reaction of Member States to the package of reform proposals put together by the Secretary-General.
The President of the General Assembly was appalled by the news of the latest gruesome violence in Algeria, Mr.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1997/19970923.db092397.html   (2143 words)

  
 Togo - Governmental and Military Flags   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Based on information from L'Album 1990 issue, and picture in correction 26, there are in use flags for the President, Chief of Staff and Chief on Navy and there exists a war pennat.
The flag of the President of the Republic is an (approximately) square flag designed as the national flag - therefore having the square canton covering much more then a canton would usually be.
In the canton the star from the national flag is replaced by a golden laurel wreath with a smalloer white star in its base and between the branches golden initials GE.
flagquest.com /FOTW/flags/tg-mil.html   (446 words)

  
 Army releases Arlington burial list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He made public a list of 69 people that had been approved by the Clinton administration for burial to rebut such assertions.
Lawrence was one of the largest contributors to the Democrats among Clinton's ambassadorial appointees, with $196,304 in donations from himself, his immediate family and the luxury hotel he controlled, The Coronado in San Diego.
When he was named ambassador, critics labeled it the most flagrant example of the way presidents use diplomatic posts to reward political contributors.
www.usatoday.com /news/index/finance/ncfin194.htm   (772 words)

  
 News Journal » Dead President’s Son Sworn in to Chorus of Howls at Home :: India / World News / Health News ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gnassingbe Eyadema, the President of Togo, who has died aged 69, was not only Africa’s longest serving leader, sustaining himself in power through tyranny; he also had the dubious distinction of pioneering that continent’s first military coup d’etat, a trend that caught on swiftly and blighted the first 25 years of the post-colonial era.
Togo’s constitution stipulates that the speaker of parliament should assume the presidency as interim leader and call elections within 60 days to choose a new leader in the event of the death ofa sitting president.
Talabani sworn in as the president of Iraq Jalal Talabani, a member of the long-repressed minority, who was elected as the Iraq’s new interim president on...
news.dcealumni.com /195/0803-dead-presidents-son-sworn-in-to-chorus-of-howls-at-home   (942 words)

  
 Libya: News and Views
Togo, host of July's Organization of African Unity (OAU) summit, expects as many as 45 presidents or heads of government to attend, including Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi, who is helping to fund the event.
The visit of the Libyan President to Morocco is considered the first under the rule of King Muhammad 6th.
During Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's recent visit to Libya, he agreed with Libyan Leader Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi "to immediately restore" flights between Tunis and Tripoli with a view "to facilitating the movement of persons and goods" between the two neighbours.
www.libyanet.com /0600nwsc.htm   (7904 words)

  
 News - 12 September 2000
Holkeri presided over the first day of the 10-day General Debate, which began with a statement from the United Nations Secretary-General, who emphasised the important role of the General Assembly in putting into action "the bold pledges" made at last week's historic Millennium Summit.
Statements were aslo made by the Presidents of Togo and Djibouti.
The President met privately with a number of speakers, including the Secretary of State of the United States of America, Ms.
www.un.org /ga/president/55/news/120900.htm   (303 words)

  
 Letter from Togo
It turned out that on television the night before, the president announced that in honor of his inauguration, he was canceling all business and school.
Presidents of Africa or their delegates were welcomed on stage one by one to welcome the president to power and to congratulate him.
And seeing as the president hasn't changed here in 36 years, the word on the street is that there is nothing new out of Lome.
www.nku.edu /~longa/togo/bw20040520murphy.asp.html   (4816 words)

  
 The New York Times > International > Africa > Togo President, Installed by Army, Agrees to an Election
But he said he would remain president in the interim rather than cede the office to the speaker of the Parliament, as the Constitution required until it was modified to allow him to take power.
Togo was part of a wave of African countries to gain independence in the early 1960's, and the first to suffer a coup d'état afterward.
Togo cannot be the tool of one family.
www.nytimes.com /2005/02/19/international/africa/19togo.html?ex=1266555600&en=103c2bbc4bb97b0f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=all   (1436 words)

  
 Ghana - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It borders Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo to the east, with the Gulf of Guinea on its southern coastline.
Its head of state is an elected president (currently John Agyekum Kufuor) with executive power.
The Parliament of Ghana is unicameral and dominated by two main parties, the New Patriotic Party and National Democratic Congress.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ghanaian   (991 words)

  
 Inter Press Service News Agency
On the American continent, the most dangerous country is still Colombia, where five reporters were assassinated in 2003 for their coverage of corruption cases and of the complicity with armed groups -- right-wing paramilitaries or leftist guerrillas -- "which control or are vying for entire regions" of the country.
In that category are the armed Islamic militant groups in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Pakistan and the Philippines; the Colombians Carlos Castaño, leader of the right-wing paramilitaries, and Manuel Marulanda, head of the leftist FARC guerrillas; the Basque group ETA, and the heir to the crown of Saudi Arabia, prince Abdullah.
Also on that list are presidents Hu Jintao, of China, Kim Jong Il, of North Korea, Fidel Castro, of Cuba, Muammar Ghaddafi, of Libya, Pervez Musharraf, of Pakistan, Vladimir Putin, of Russia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, of Tunisia, and Islam Karimov, of Uzbekistan (END/2004)
www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=23568   (1142 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online:
Calm was returning slowly on Thursday to the Togo capital, Lomé, after post-election violence that has killed at least 22 people, amid assurances from France that it will not intervene in the affairs of its former West African colony.
Togo's Constitutional Court has yet to confirm Gnassingbe's victory, which he earned by a nearly 60-40 margin according to the poll results.
Ecowas and the African Union, chaired by West African heavyweight Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, have joined calls by the United States and the European Union for a government of national unity in Togo, which has been cut off from international aid for a decade over its democratic deficiencies.
mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=236636&area=/breaking_news/...   (810 words)

  
 Writings: The Best of the Worst 2
List of Previously Visited Pages at U.S. A collection of a few things of some interest I've scribbled over time and that didn't fit in any other website.
The whole deception lies in this: the list is meant to protrait the Usa as the perpretators of the grwatest evils on earth.
The list argues also, among many other things, that 50% (still this magic number) of the civilain victims of gulf war 1991 were children.
www.unitedscripters.com /writings/writings2.html   (8401 words)

  
 Nigeriaworld Feature Article - The ramparts we should guard and guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
President Obasanjo said on February 21 2005 during the inaugural address to the distinguished ladies and gentlemen and members of the National Political Reform Conference that there are certain issues in Nigerian political development that should be called the "the minimum issues that must be taken as given".
I recall when President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida described the same issues, as "settles issues" in 1987/8, Nigerians went to town that IBB was restricting the Members of the Constituent Assembly by making some issues 'no go areas' even though he never used these words.
The President cannot surrender the power that he does not have that rightly belongs to the National Assembly and of the Judiciary in Section 4 and Section 6 respectively under the Constitution.
nigeriaworld.com /cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/omoruyi/030505.html   (4663 words)

  
 .: US News - 2006 U.S. Visa Lottery Opens in November :. .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On your entry you must list your spouse, that is husband or wife, and all unmarried children under 21 years of age, with the exception of children who are already U.S. citizens or Legal Permanent Residents.
You must list ALL your children who are unmarried and under 21 years of age, whether they are your natural children, your spouse's children, or children you have formally adopted in accordance with the laws of your country, unless such child is already a U.S. citizen or Legal Permanent Resident.
List all children under 21 years of age even if they no longer reside with you or you do not intend for them to immigrate under the DV program.
www.allamericanpatriots.com /m-news+article+storyid-3539.html   (5978 words)

  
 The Ultimate List of historical dogs Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Togo, lead dog who covered the most distance during the 1925 serum run to Nome which relayed diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic
Murray of Fala Hill (or Fala), U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Scottish Terrier, given by his cousin, Margaret Suckley, and depicted in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
Pete, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Terrier, who bit so many people he was exiled from the White House.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/List_of_historical_dogs   (454 words)

  
 The Ultimate Sylvanus Olympio - American History Information Guide and Reference
He served as the Prime Minister of Togo from 1958 to 1963.
He then served as the first President of Togo between 1961 and 1963, when he was assassinated in a military coup d'état on January 13th.
The leader of the coup, Col Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who later assumed the presidency in 1967 and held it until his death in 2005, claimed to have personally fired the shot which killed Olympio.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Sylvanus_Olympio   (116 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
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 Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
General Ayub Khan was the president from 1958 to 1969, and General Yahya Khan from 1969 to 1971.
Her government was followed by that of Nawaz Sharif, and the two leaders alternated until the military coup by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999.
Nation-wide parliamentary elections were held in October 2002, with the PML-Q winning a plurality of seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan, and Zafarullah Khan Jamali of that party emerging as Prime Minister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan   (5437 words)

  
 Inter Press Service News Agency
Last year two reporters were murdered in Cote d'Ivoire and one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, says the report, adding that in Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Eritrea and Togo the press has been the victim of authoritarianism, prompting numerous journalists to emigrate.
RSF maintains that the Americas continue to be a land of contrasts, as freedom of the press is widely respected, but is persecuted daily in Cuba, Haiti and Colombia.
Also on that list are presidents Hu Jintao, of China, Kim Jong Il, of North Korea, Fidel Castro, of Cuba, Muammar Ghaddafi, of Libya, Pervez Musharraf, of Pakistan, Vladimir Putin, of Russia, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, of Tunisia, and Islam Karimov, of Uzbekistan..
www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=23568   (911 words)

  
 Members of transitional council confirmed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Among the 15 representatives of political parties are two former prime ministers, Enoch Derant Lakoue, chairman of the Parti Social pour la Democratie; and Jean Paul Ngoupande, chairman of the Parti pour l'Unite Nationale.
The representatives of Patasse's Mouvement de Liberation du Peuple Centrafrique (MLPC) include Hugue Dobozendi, the party's deputy chairman and former deputy speaker of the national assembly that was dissolved soon after the coup.
In his decree signed on Thursday, Bozize said the 12-day council session would be dedicated to the installation of the body, the election of its board and the establishment of its internal regulations.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=34432   (505 words)

  
 List of Presidents of Togo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
List of Presidents of Togo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about List of Presidents of Togo contains research on
List of Presidents of Togo, Presidents of Togo and 1960–present.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/President_of_Togo   (106 words)

  
 The Plowboy Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Subsequently, I served as chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, and later I was appointed the director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
One of the assignments I was given when I assumed the presidency of the society was to make the group once again more action-oriented, and only a very small minority of our members have objected to that change.
Source listings, addresses and prices have not been updated; some details may have changed and terminology may be outmoded.
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