Word: hamani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others deposed were Niger's President Hamani Diori, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Madagascar's head of state Gabriel Ramanantsoa and Chad's President Ngarta Tombalbaye...
...stricken African states and declared that several of the six nations of the Sahelian strip just beneath the Sahara could literally disappear as a result of the devastation spread by a six-year dry spell. Last week, in landlocked Niger, a military coup toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960. Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife, who was shot while she was said to be resisting arrest at the Presidential Palace...
...Africa's failures can be traced to the shortcomings of its leaders. As in most new countries, the first Presidents and Premiers were primarily freedom fighters, with scant experience in statecraft. Still, few nations have leaders more dedicated or imaginative than Tanzania's Nyerere, Niger's Hamani Diori and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, like Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, is an elder statesman who has imposed a degree of stability on his heterogeneous country. Of the soldiers who now rule nine African nations, at least two-Nigeria's Yakubu...