African Leaders - Despots and Democratic

[drol 11,945]

On 17/03/2022 at 00:18, arghton said:

Jacob Oulanyah, current Speaker of the Uganda Parliament since May 2021 is in a Seattle hospital and has been there since early February. Now his brother and the deputy speaker are in the US.

https://www.independent.co.ug/deputy-speaker-among-off-to-seattle/

Seems like he's very ill, unconfirmed reports say that it's stage four colon cancer and there have been death rumors recently... 

Very good hint, in fact Jacob Oulanyah is dead.

[arghton 6,726]

Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, former Prime Minister of Mali (2017-2019) during Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's tenure dead at 67:

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1332378/politique/mali-lancien-premier-ministre-soumeylou-boubeye-maiga-est-mort/

[arghton 6,726]

Django Sissoko, Acting Prime Minister of Mali 2012-2013 reportedly dead at 74:

https://mali24.info/le-mali-en-deuil-lancien-premier-ministre-diango-cissoko-nest-plus/

[arghton 6,726]

On 31/10/2014 at 17:23, Magere Hein said:

Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore out after a 27-year rule. Military chief General Honore Traore in.

 

regards,

Hein

Blaise Compaore found guilty of killing his predecessor Thomas Sankara (revolutionary, President of Burkina Faso 1983-1987) and sentenced to life in absentia:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61008332

And the current government wants him to be extradited. 

 

Worth mentioning that Sankara's predecessor Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo is still alive and will be 80 this year. Burkina Faso was still called Upper Volta back then. 

[roaming_comrade 471]

23 minutes ago, arghton said:

Blaise Compaore found guilty of killing his predecessor Thomas Sankara (revolutionary, President of Burkina Faso 1983-1987) and sentenced to life in absentia:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61008332

And the current government wants him to be extradited. 

 

Worth mentioning that Sankara's predecessor Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo is still alive and will be 80 this year. Burkina Faso was still called Upper Volta back then. 

correction, he's 71

[gcreptile 10,970]

Former dictator of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is supposedly "too ill for trial" but has now been seen walking and chatting in the hospital:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/images-of-sudan-s-bashir-in-hospital-draw-anger-on-social-media/47531176

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo, has died at the age of 83.

Details of his death are still sketchy, but Daily Trust gathered that the prominent Yoruba monarch died at t the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, late Friday.

He was said to have gone for a routine medical check-up.

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[Toast 16,140]

1 minute ago, Sir Creep said:

Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo, has died at the age of 83.

Details of his death are still sketchy, but Daily Trust gathered that the prominent Yoruba monarch died at t the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, late Friday.

He was said to have gone for a routine medical check-up.

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Wrong thread.

[YoungWillz 21,044]

On 24/05/2021 at 20:31, arghton said:

As Drol mentioned before in the commie thread, lots of Ethiopian old politicians are dead.

 

 

Out of heads of state prior to 2013, only one is alive: Old Mengistu Haile Mariam (b. 1937)... Four of Mengistu's successors are dead: Tesfaye Gebre Kidan (1935-2004), Meles Zenawi (1955-2012), Negasso Gidada (1943-2019) and Girma Woldes-Giorgis (1924-2018).

 

And again, out of heads of government prior to 2012 (Zenawi's death), only one is alive: Tamrat Layne (b. 1955), head of the transitional government in 1991. He now lives in Denver. Mengistu's prime ministers are all dead: Fikre Selassie Wogderess died in 2020, Hailu Yimenu in 1993 and Tesfaye Dinka in 2016.

 

Out of Vice Presidents? The political position only existed during the Derg era and the only person alive to have held this position is Colonel Fisseha Desta (b. 1941). Here is a new video of him. A controversial figure in Ethiopia.

 

The first Speaker of Parliament 1995-2005, Dawit Yohannes (1956-2019) is also dead.

Fisseha Desta being reported dead: 

 

[drol 11,945]

Alpha Condé hospitalised in Turkey, but has a process for murder going on...

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

On 20/01/2017 at 19:14, Death Impends said:

Jammeh to step down - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38699119

The Gambia to prosecute OoO DDP survivor Yahya Jammeh, according to Africa live newsfeed on BBC.

 

No extradition with Equatorial Guinea where Jammeh is in exile. Jammeh bastard.

[drol 11,945]

On 16/08/2021 at 12:30, arghton said:

Sao Tome and Principe's current President, Evaristo Carvalho is in hospital after an illness and an operation. According to VOA he was operated for an umbilical hernia.

 

Sao Tome Principe's first President 1975-1991 and 2011-2016 Manuel Pinto da Costa (1937-) is still alive, same for first Prime Minister and second President Miguel Trovoada (1936 or 1937-) and Portuguese Sao Tome Principe's only Prime Minister Leonel Mário d'Alva (1935-). We might see someone from the country on the top 100 oldest living state leaders list in around five or six years.

Evaristo Carvalho dead at 79.

[En Passant 3,741]

10 hours ago, drol said:

Evaristo Carvalho dead at 79.

 

Thanks for that.

[drol 11,945]

José Eduardo dos Santos on life support in ICU and it's been coming for some time...

[drol 11,945]

15 minutes ago, drol said:

José Eduardo dos Santos on life support in ICU and it's been coming for some time...

Oh, no he is stable and out of danger!

[arghton 6,726]

On Eduardo dos Santos...

1. Stable, says VOA Portugues

2. "Very serious, deteriorated during the last days and is treated in a medical centre specialised for treating cancers"

3. This source claims that he's in ICU and sedated and has been battling cancer for years.

4. "In induced coma, between life and death after respiratory arrest"

5. Political analyst José Gama: "He had respiratory failure but is now stable"

[msc 18,442]

21 hours ago, drol said:

Oh, no he is stable and out of danger!

 

Not so much updates as peekaboo deadpooling! 

[drol 11,945]

It seems Dos Santos' situation was a bit exaggerated: according to his daughter he is not in danger, has not suffered a stroke and is not suffering from cancer.

 

One might wonder why he is on life support the, but anyway...

[arghton 6,726]

Maybe he just needed some additional support in his life. It's not easy being a ex-dictator.

[arghton 6,726]

On 26/06/2022 at 15:57, drol said:

It seems Dos Santos' situation was a bit exaggerated: according to his daughter he is not in danger, has not suffered a stroke and is not suffering from cancer.

Portuguese newspapers, for example Publico, disagree:

https://www.publico.pt/2022/06/28/mundo/noticia/tentativa-acordar-jose-eduardo-santos-coma-falhou-2011741

According to this article an attempt of taking him out of coma today has failed, he's in an irreversible situation and a source in his office has said that he's in worsening condition and on his last legs 

[gcreptile 10,970]

They still seem in disagreement whether he has cancer.

[drol 11,945]

Of course all denied by his daughter: he is stable, all his organ are functioning well and those circulating are "fake news".

 

 

[arghton 6,726]

"Angolan authorities already preparing dos Santos' funeral"

https://sicnoticias.pt/mundo/autoridades-angolanas-ja-estarao-a-preparar-o-funeral-de-jose-eduardo-dos-santos/

With these cases you never know what's true until they're dead, but some family member has already accused people of poisoning him and the President said that his condition is "worrying" yesterday

[arghton 6,726]

Family (finally) confirms that Jose Eduardo dos Santos is in critical and delicate condition in intensive care after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest on the 23rd of June. 

[gcreptile 10,970]

Dos Santos' daughter who had previously denied his critical condition now wants an attempted murder investigation.

https://www.dw.com/pt-002/josé-eduardo-dos-santos-destratamento-resulta-das-políticas-do-ex-presidente/a-62358509

 

After that cardiac arrest, he's still in a coma and they are monitoring the neurological complications of that arrest, probably thinking about whether it's worth it to ever awaken him.