Word: ahidjo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cameroun, President Ahmadou Ahidjo is up against a powerful separatist movement. Burundi's last two Prime Ministers have been assassinated, and a police coup was barely avoided last October. Rumors of an impending military coup grew so strong in Uganda last month that Prime Minister Milton Obote's entire Cabinet went into hiding for two days. Obote himself suspended the constitution, closed Parliament, seized all power and fired the army commander...
Political parties: 7. Voters: 77%. Only former French dependency with strong political opposition. Communists outlawed by fanatically anti-Red President Ahmadou Ahidjo. Well-trained African civil service...
...Senegal's President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Premier Mamadu Dia, Niger's President Hamani Diori, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo, Dahomey's Premier Hubert Maga, Mauritania's President Mocktar and Ould Daddah, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, plus ministers plenipotentiary of the Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad. But Mali sent only an observer; Togo, currently feuding with Houphouet-Boigny, did not attend...
...France last New Year's Day, it did so amid some grisly statistics: in the previous six months, terrorists had massacred more than 500 men, women and children. Last week, as the new nation went to the polls to vote on the constitution of able Moslem Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo, 37, another 80 were dead...
Last week, as soon as the voters approved his constitution, Premier Ahidjo dramatically lifted the ban against Moumié's UPC. But what seemed like a surrender was actually a shrewd move. In the "general's" absence, a strong and respectable opposition has grown up within his party, and Moumié himself seems to be slipping: in the face of his personal command to boycott the referendum, a record 75% of the entire electorate still went to the polls...