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Premium Times
February 16, 2018
We had meetings in Ghana, Benin Republic, and elsewhere. We were not harassed in any of those countries. We were not told that ... On May 6, 1972, Mr. Ahidjo announced his resolve to convert the Federal Republic into a unitary state. And in 1984, Mr. Ahidjo's successor, Paul Biya, returned the name ofÃâà...
The National
January 29, 2018
This utopian cocoon of ideas and affection was abruptly shaken following the military coup of 1972, which led to the foundation of the socialist People's Republic of Benin three years later, in place of the post-colonial nation known as the Republic of Dahomey. Kidjo remembers how the communist purgeÃâà...
Huffington Post
October 15, 2015
In November, 1974 he announced that the state would be Marxist-Leninist, and banks and the petroleum industry were nationalized. In 1975 the country was renamed the People's Republic of Benin. Francis Terry McNamara was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Cotonou, Dahomey, from 1972 to 1974.
THISDAY Newspapers
December 31, 1999
And Damcida came to me and said I was wrong that after the coup of July 29, 1975, he as a permanent secretary was a member of a committee set up by ... It started as Federal Revenue Court in 1972-73 to help in getting federal revenue to be adjudicated speedily instead of state High Court handling theÃâà...
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