DAHOMEY: PRESIDENT-DESIGNATED ZINSOU ON PRE-REFERENDUM TOUR

Record ID: 231120

  • Title: DAHOMEY: PRESIDENT-DESIGNATED ZINSOU ON PRE-REFERENDUM TOUR
  • Date: 26th July 1968
  • Summary: CROWDS APPLAUDING; DR. ZINSOU SPEAKING; SHAKING HANDS WITH CROWDS. Initials PW/VS/AS/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 10th August 1968 13:00
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  • Location: NIKKI AND KANDI, DAHOMEY
  • Country: Benin
  • Reuters ID: LVA4IGP7ZSOPP3S7WB4HS2TX1TIS
  • Story Text: WITH A NATIONAL REFERENDUM DUE IN SUNDAY IN WHICH IT IS EXPECTED THE PEOPLE OF DAHOMEY WILL CONFIRM THE APPOINTMENT OF DR. EMILE ZINSOU AS PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, DR. ZINSOU HAS BEEN MAKING A TOUR OF THE COUNTRY TO MEET THE PEOPLE.

    DR. ZINSOU WAS RECENTLY APPOINTED BY DAHOMEY'S MILITARY RULERS AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY, ANNOUNCING THEY WOULD HAND OVER FULL CONTROL TO HIM AND HIS GOVERNMENT.

    ON SUNDAY, A NATIONAL REFERENDUM IS LIKELY TO CONFIRM HIS APPOINTMENT.

    MEANWHILE, DR. ZINSOU VISITED THE SMALL TOWNS OF NIKKI AND KANDI ON WEDNESDAY AND WAS GIVEN A GREAT RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE HE MET THERE.
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