Word: abdou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divisive outcome was perhaps inevitable. Many of the African delegates had arrived anticipating the "tangible, measurable, manageable decisions" demanded by the forum chairman, President Abdou Diouf of Senegal. Western delegates, on the other hand, had expected a freewheeling discussion of medium- and long-term strategies that would have no bottom line. Ray Love of the U.S. Agency for International Development defined the session's goal as "a clear agreement between the Africans and the donors on the key problems and key priorities for investment...
...their meters and cruise all day for payment in dollars. No wonder: the black market pays up to 1,000 Mozambican meticais to the dollar, compared with the official exchange rate of 42. "To Africa's sickness, pestilence and disease, add corruption," says Senegal's President Abdou Diouf. "It is endemic to this continent...