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Rapace
5th February 2005, 19:19
It has just been announced that President Eyadema of Togo has passed away, while he was leaving the country to receive medical treatment.
Not a good piece of news for the stability of the sub region.
Legionet
5th February 2005, 22:13
Le président togolais Gnassingbé Eyadéma, le plus ancien chef d'Etat africain en exercice, est décédé samedi alors qu'il était évacué vers l'Europe à la suite d'une crise cardiaque, ont annoncé dans la soirée les autorités. Il avait 69 ans.........

Le général Eyadéma, un ancien membre de la Légion étrangère française, dirigeait le Togo depuis son coup d'Etat de 1967, l'un des tout premiers de l'Afrique post-coloniale.

Source de l'info : ICI ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
dietrying
6th February 2005, 03:24
huh? He was in the LE? That is really interesting! Are any other African Pres. anciens?
Peter Lyderik
6th February 2005, 06:45
He was in the Colonial Forces, Troupes de Coloniale. His regiment was Tirailleurs Senegalais.
BobW
6th February 2005, 14:19
Bonjour Dietrying,

Not a Legionaire, but Idi Amin of Uganda (and later, Saudi Arabia) was in British colonial forces. I heard he was a cook. He attended parachutist school in Israel.

The famous commando raid at Entebbe Airport, Kampala, Uganda involved an Air France hijacked flight enroute to Paris.
Eagle eye
6th February 2005, 15:26
Bonjour Dietrying,

Not a Legionaire, but Idi Amin of Uganda (and later, Saudi Arabia) was in British colonial forces. I heard he was a cook. He attended parachutist school in Israel.

The famous commando raid at Entebbe Airport, Kampala, Uganda involved an Air France hijacked flight enroute to Paris.Idi Amin was a boxing champion in the British Army and wore the dubious distinction on his uniform: "Conqueror of the British Empire".

He personally strangled an Israeli woman in her hospital bed after the Entebbe raid.

Edits and comments always welcome.

He contracted syphillis and died in Saudi...
Legionet
6th February 2005, 21:46
He was in the Colonial Forces, Troupes de Coloniale. His regiment was Tirailleurs Senegalais.
Merci de ne pas confondre l'armée coloniale française avec la Légion étrangère.
flash010
27th January 2006, 00:47
idi ameen was a joke he asked mohamad ali to a fight using judo and boxing ali would have killed him. why the world let him live for so long beats the hell out of me.:confused: