Nigeria (Vol 2, 2005)
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In 2005, the Nigerian government demonstrated convincing leadership for the first time since it came to power as an elected body in 1999. Under the undisputed leadership of President Olusegun Obasanjo, it revealed a hitherto unknown capacity for managing and, to a fairly large extent, preventing a threatening internal crisis by withdrawing the most powerful local militias from the field of operations, largely by legal means. In fact, in what was a remarkable achievement, the government even reached a debt relief deal with the Paris Club, unprecedented in the history of the creditors' club. This, in conjunction with a personal triumph in the supreme court over the outcome of the 2003 presidential elections and wide-ranging banking reform, paved the way for the commencement of a public debate on amending the constitution in favour of the incumbent. Notwithstanding these achievements, in comparative terms the level of violence in the country was still fairly high. Interestingly, while the federal government was able to mobilise sustainable support from Western countries and institutions in stabilising Nigeria, there was not too much progress registered in crisis management on the African home front, in particular the serious crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Nigeria (Vol 2, 2005)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Heinrich Bergstresser in
Current site
Google Scholar
(8,421 words)