Word: youlou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where had they come from? Leopoldville, that unfriendly capital across the Congo River. Who had sent them? "That dwarf abbe," Fulbert Youlou, the deposed President who had vowed to overthrow Massamba-Debat's regime. Furthermore, he charged, the commandos had been trained and equipped by the Congolese army with the aid of a foreign embassy that he refused to name. "It's curious," he said, "but it was not the United States embassy...
Victim to Dry Rot. Another source of African unrest has been the extravagance and economic naivete of some of its new leaders. The Brazzaville Congo's Abbe Fulbert Youlou, a Roman Catholic priest turned President, ordered mauve cassocks from Dior, quaffed champagne and built himself a luxury hotel. Meanwhile, his country's timber-based economy fell victim to dry rot. Crowds of New Class labor union members, with the aid of the army, politically defrocked him last August. A similar fate befell Dahomey's President Hubert Maga, who built himself a $3,000,000 palace and shrugged...
...looked as if Mba had followed in the ignominious path of Dahomey's Hubert Maga and the Congo Republic's Fulbert Youlou, both of whose governments were toppled last year. De Gaulle did not choose to intervene in those insurrections. This time, however, more was at stake. Claiming that the Gabon coup did not have popular support, De Gaulle implemented a "mutual defense" agreement signed in 1960 when Gabon became independent. Eleven hours after Mba's rude awakening, French help...
Squandermania. It was the latest in a series of coups that have shaken Africa's new nations, including Dahomey's neighbor, Togo, where President Sylvanus Olympic was assassinated last January, and the former French Congo, whose President Fulbert Youlou was deposed in August (the ex-Belgian Congo also witnessed a near-coup three weeks ago). Plots have been uncovered in Senegal, Chad and the Ivory Coast...
...tremors became serious last August, when mobs of unemployed overthrew President Fulbert Youlou in the ex-French Congo across the Congo River in Brazzaville. The upheaval fired the imaginations of labor leaders in Leopoldville, whose slums teem with thousands of jobless. They were joined by followers of the late Patrice Lumumba and his leftist successor, Antoine Gizenga. Although he is imprisoned on an island in the river, his African Solidarity Party remains well organized...