Vanguard

June 4, 2001
Posted to the web June 4, 2001

Valencia

About 200 regimes in Africa were removed between 1963 and 2000 by coup
d’etat, wars or other unconstitutional means, a report has shown.

The report, compiled by the African Development Bank (ADB) and contained in
its "African Development Report 2001," shows that 14 current leaders in
Africa have been in office for between 10 years and 20 years, while nine of
them have served for more than 20 years.

The mean tenure for all former African leaders according to the report is
7.2 years and about twice that number for leaders who died in office or
retired. It also says between 1960 and 1989, only one African head of state
lost an election, while 12 lost elections between 1990 and 1999.

In contrast, European leaders have each served an average of 3.2 years over
the past four decades with Finland having the shortest average and
Luxembourg the longest. The document also shows that three recently
independent countries in Africa have had no leadership transitions since
independence while 11 have had just one transition, just as Nigeria has had
11 transitions and Benin Republic 12.

The report states that of the 101 past leaders in Africa who left office
because of coups or similar unauthorised means, about two-thirds were
killed, imprisoned or banished to foreign countries.


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