African Leaders - Despots and Democratic

[Octopus of Odstock 2,203]

Death reported in error. He's in a coma, in critical condition, but not dead yet.

 

Well, either way, he's a rubbish 2008 candidate on account of his soon-to-be-deadness.

 

By the way, CP, you need to clear your PM box - I keep getting a message saying its full, in response to your RDP query.

[Canadian Paul 97]

Death reported in error. He's in a coma, in critical condition, but not dead yet.

 

Well, either way, he's a rubbish 2008 candidate on account of his soon-to-be-deadness.

 

Well that and he's already proven that he won't get a proper UK obit. If he pulls an Ariel Sharon though, might be good for someone's WDP or CPDP Theme Team.

 

By the way, CP, you need to clear your PM box - I keep getting a message saying its full, in response to your RDP query.

 

Apologies. Sorted now.

[Phantom 2,535]

Chiluba in stable condition after collapsing at his home

[Octopus of Odstock 2,203]

Chiluba in stable condition after collapsing at his home

 

Remarkably convienent timing considering his trial is coming up, and he's claiming he's too ill... It wouldn't be the first time Chiluba has pulled such a trick

[Phantom 2,535]

Chiluba in stable condition after collapsing at his home

 

Remarkably convienent timing considering his trial is coming up, and he's claiming he's too ill... It wouldn't be the first time Chiluba has pulled such a trick

 

Too true, he pulled the same stunt about this time last year

[Octopus of Odstock 2,203]

Chiluba to stand trial

 

Basically, the judge agrees with me that all these "collapses" and "health scares" are probably a sham, or at least exagarreated & now Freddy's going to get what he deserves...

[Twelvetrees 10]

Chiluba to stand trial

 

Basically, the judge agrees with me that all these "collapses" and "health scares" are probably a sham, or at least exagarreated & now Freddy's going to get what he deserves...

 

Quite. One of the prime pre-requisites for an African Despot is a gift for theatricality. I look forward to him collapsing in the dock in due course.

 

As for him getting what he deserves, however, I cannot share your optimism. My guess is that Mwanawasa will eventually cut him a deal rather than be perceived as a puppet of Western imperialism.

[maryportfuncity 10,658]

Chiluba to stand trial

 

Basically, the judge agrees with me that all these "collapses" and "health scares" are probably a sham, or at least exagarreated & now Freddy's going to get what he deserves...

 

Quite. One of the prime pre-requisites for an African Despot is a gift for theatricality. I look forward to him collapsing in the dock in due course.

 

As for him getting what he deserves, however, I cannot share your optimism. My guess is that Mwanawasa will eventually cut him a deal rather than be perceived as a puppet of Western imperialism.

 

 

Fair point, but if he's kept alive, in jail and generally miserable that could be a serious punishment to a theatrical despot. Kinda, what he deserves, obviously without the daily sessions of being tortured in public.

[maryportfuncity 10,658]

Charles Taylor starts the performance of his crowd pleasing life by keeping them waiting. The man's love of an audience means he'll almost certainly show up to rant, denounce and display his impressive line in clothing. Faced with a guilty verdict he may yet deliver for those of us sitting on deadpool picks which pay off with minor bonuses for death under 60 and/or by suicide.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

I'm not sure if he counts as a despot or not, but Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the first president of Somalia and the world's oldest former head of state has died.

 

I believe that gives Sir Anthony Mamo the new crown.

 

Ah, bollocks, another "secret" candidate gone.

 

Not really a despot, no - in fact, quite a nice chap. Indeed, CP, Mr Mamo is the oldest ex-leader around now...

 

Death reported in error. He's in a coma, in critical condition, but not dead yet.

 

Aden Abdulle Osman Daar, is now officially dead. I doubt he'll gate a state funeral, as there seems to be no state to speak of in Somalia.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,203]

Ivory Coast PM survives rocket attack on his plane

[maryportfuncity 10,658]

Ivory Coast PM survives rocket attack on his plane

 

No, no, no. 'Survives rocket attack on his plane.....this time!'

[Twelvetrees 10]

Brahim Deby, son of Chadian President Idriss Deby, has been found dead in France. He had a somewhat colourful life, and his evident appointment as heir apparent was controversial even within his own family.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi of Uganda is in a London hospital, having undergone a major operation...

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

It's hardly my specialist subject, but what sounds like DespotFest is taking place in the Ivory Coast. A few ill-chosen words could see it all kick off big-style, perhaps?

 

 

 

 

God you could almost start a spin off game, Head of states in a coma list 2007. Okay so the title needs a bit of work but you get the jist. My money's on Giorgio Napolitano, president of Italy. born 1925, could be a little young.

Earls' Friends in a Coma?

 

I know, I know. It's serious.

[Twelvetrees 10]

The former Angolan rebel leader Alvara Holden Roberto has died at the age of 84. He never got the chance to be a despot, as his US and Israeli-backed FNLA forces lost out to the Communist MPLA; however, as Fortinbras says in 'Hamlet' "...he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royally..."

[maryportfuncity 10,658]

Sierra Leone bad place for a relaxing beer at the end of a hard week at the mo. Former president and those closest to him unlikely to be enjoying a good night's sleep.

[maryportfuncity 10,658]

Truce off for kidnapping of foreign oil workers, heat on the Nigerian government.

 

sh*t load of guns in that country.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

The President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, is in a French hospital recovering from a "hernia operation."

 

This article, published in June, suggests his problems are a little more serious.

 

"The cancer has spread so much that it is life theatening," a source privy to the President's health disclosed.

[Star Crossed 33]

The President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, is in a French hospital recovering from a "hernia operation."

This article, published in June, suggests his problems are a little more serious.

"The cancer has spread so much that it is life theatening," a source privy to the President's health disclosed.

I swear, it was between him and Mohammed Deif for the last slot on my DDP team. He'd be an unique pick as well!

[Banshees Scream 110]

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Fading, but not yet expired.

 

On the Egyptian Prime Minister Hosni Mubarak 'and I can't be positive' but I believe reading that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer several years ago. Today prostate cancer is very treatable, in fact there are various medications that can be prescribed to treat it.

 

Now I'm very 'skeptical' when it comes to articles that read "His condition is not life-threatening, but he is very weak," - Because let's face it that the majority of us cross our fingers for 'eye brow raising' statements that are written by the press, and in truth all we are really reading is 'a social term' which it's called 'exaggeration' and it's origination in Latin means 'to heap up or magnify' ... so no sh*t I blame 'the press' in the first degree or in a sense it might even be more appropriate for me to call them 'fictional authors'

 

If anybody has ever heard of 'Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo' who is the President of Equatorial Guinea, it has stated that he is suffering from 'terminal prostate cancer' for several years and of course this classic line ....... 'is reported to weigh as little as 50kg (110 lbs), and is said to be existing in agony.

 

While at the same time he also has been sharing hand shakes with Condoleezza Rice and 'Yes I would have coffee with her parents over her birth name!'

 

 

Standing with Hawaiian necklaces in the rain with umbrella's? ....

 

Teodoro in agony?

 

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

The President of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed may be about to resign because of health reasons . Apparently a group of German doctors have been flown in to attend to him.

 

His BBC profile mentions that he had a liver transplant in the 1990s. This article says that on top of his liver problems, he also suffers from Parkinsons and Alzheimers.

[Banshees Scream 110]

Facts are loyal and time is precious and outcomes cease to accord in what we visualize, our hopes a million disqualify at the gate and here is another fallen DDP prize.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

I doubt that Major Berrington Mkoma would get a UK obit., but his involvement in the aftermath of the Dian Fossey murder may just earn him a mention somewhere. His illness is unspecified but deemed to be terminal, and the fact that he is being released from prison straight to Lusaka Hospital does not bode well. It seems that Frederick Chiluba can rid himself of political inconveniences even whilst under house arrest.

 

Major Berrington Mkoma has finally been released from jail.

 

'Unlucky' does not do this man justice - he's had a rough decade. Unpleasant details of some of his treatment during ten years behind bars on trumped up charges of treason can be found here, the article doesn't mention he was also deliberately infected with HIV and subsequently developed Karposi's sarcoma, a cancer common in AIDS victims. Immediately before he was arrested he had the misfortune to witness the horrors of the Rwandan genocide whilst working on a secondment for the UN. On top of all that, the champion of his cause, the British wildlife photographer Nick Gordon, whose life Mkoma saved in Rwanda, dropped dead of a heart attack in 2004.

 

I don't suppose he will get an obit, but he deserves one.

[Banshees Scream 110]

Devon Death Trip... if anything you deserve some kind of award from the so called 'panel' and you are very informative a majority of the time but you are also very misleading. No doubt I've claimed a few major names from you that will not disappoint me next year but relying on your claims I just hope it's not 'we didn't get a BBC obituary' because that would seriously piss me off. I really hope you have a realistic perspective as far as future obituaries go..