Thomas Boni Yayi
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Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second
Boni in 2012
President Boni taking the oath of office, 2006
Raymond Gilpin, Mahamadou Issoufou, Alpha Conde, Tara Sonenshine, Alassane Ouattara, Boni Yayi, and David Smock in 2011
Boni Yayi with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, August 2007
Mathieu Kérékou
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Mathieu Kérékou was a Beninese politician and revolutionary who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.
Thomas Boni Yayi
…President of the West African Development Bank (BOAD). Boni stood as one of 26 candidates in the March 2006 presidential election. The sitting president, Mathieu Kérékou, had been a dominant force in the politics of the country since the early 1970s and there were serious doubts about him agreeing to allow a transition…
Kérékou in 2006
Kérékou with Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1976
USSR ambassador to Benin Vitaly Agapov presents his letter of credence to Mathieu Kérékou, May 1979.
Kérékou's statue in Kouarfa