Madagascar 1996
Yearbook 1996 Madagascar. Prime Minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny resigned since the government lost a vote in parliament on May 17. President Albert Zafy then appointed party-politically unborn Norbert Ratsirahonana as new…
Yearbook 1996 Madagascar. Prime Minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny resigned since the government lost a vote in parliament on May 17. President Albert Zafy then appointed party-politically unborn Norbert Ratsirahonana as new…
Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and parts of northern France constituted the area of the Netherlands, which until 1579 had a common history (see Netherlands). In the Netherlands’ war against Spain,…
Yearbook 1996 Lithuania. Also 1996 became a year of scandals in Lithuanian politics. Reluctantly, the experienced Prime Minister Adolfas Slezevicius resigned in February because of a so-called insider tip that…
Excavations, the area that today constitutes Liechtenstein – between Austria and Switzerland – has been inhabited since Neolithic times. Around 800 BCE it was inhabited by the heroes who remained…
Yearbook 1996 Libya. The opposition in Libya made itself known during a football match in July in Tripoli by shouting slogans against the country’s leader Muammar al-Khadaffi. About 20 people…
Yearbook 1996 Liberia. Once again, the hope of peace in the glorified L. failed as fierce fighting broke out in the capital Monrovia in April. A peace agreement signed in…
Yearbook 1996 Lesotho. King Moshoeshoe II died in January in connection with a car accident and was replaced by his son Letsie III. The leader of the opposition party United…
Yearbook 1996 Lebanon. After several weeks of escalated fighting between Israeli soldiers and the Shiite militia Hizbullah around the Israeli-occupied zone in southern Lebanon. Hizbullah fired rockets at the Israeli…
Yearbook 1996 Latvia. In 1996, L. became a year of some stabilization after the turbulent 1995, with its banking crisis, GDP fall and prolonged government formation following an election that…
Yearbook 1996 Laos. Like Vietnam and China, the poorer Laos tries to open the economy outwards without changing its one-party system. At the Laotian Revolutionary People’s Party (Pathet Lao) congress…