South Africa 2001
Yearbook 2001 South Africa. In April, the government won a big victory against 39 foreign drug manufacturers, who brought it to court for deciding to import cheap copies of large companies’ AIDS drugs. The...
Category: Africa
Somalia 2001
Yearbook 2001 Somalia. The provisional government set up at a peace conference in Djibouti in 2000 was difficult to accept by the established militia leaders who have waged war since the early 1990s. At...
Sierra Leone 2001
Yearbook 2001 Sierra Leone. Despite the term of office of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and the parliament elected at the same time in 1996, Parliament decided that a new election could not be held...
Seychelles 2001
Yearbook 2001 Seychelles. The August/September presidential election marked a tight victory for President France Albert René, who, however, received only 3,000 more votes than his chief challenger, the Anglican priest Wavel Ramkalawan. The opposition...
Senegal 2001
Yearbook 2001 Senegal. In January, 96% of voters approved the new constitution in a referendum. The Senate was abolished, the number of members in the lower house was reduced from 140 to 120 and...
Sao Tome and Principe 2001
Yearbook 2001 São Tomé and Príncipe. In the July presidential election, businessman Fradique de Menezez defeated the Socialist Party’s MLSTP-PSD candidate, former president Manuel Pinto da Costa. de Menezez, who belongs to the liberal...
Rwanda 2001
Yearbook 2001 Rwanda. Four Rwandans were sentenced in June by a Belgian court to between 12 and 20 years in prison for participating in the 1994 genocide. Among those convicted were two Catholic nuns....
Republic of the Congo 2001
Yearbook 2001 Congo. A month-long national dialogue aimed at healing the wounds after the civil war in the 1990s ended with a conference in Brazzaville in April. The participants formulated a proposal for a...
Nigeria 2001
Yearbook 2001 Nigeria. In the face of increasing competition for ever-scarcer resources, multicultural Nigeria was affected by a number of severe conflicts between ethnic and religious groups. In June and July, more than 100...
Niger 2001
Yearbook 2001 Niger. Businessman Aboubacar Sanda was dismissed by the government after 20 years as one of Niger’s most important traditional leaders, the Sultan of Zinder. He was charged with a number of serious...