Nicéphore Soglo

Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo (born 29 November 1934) is a Beninese politician who was Prime Minister of Benin from 1990 to 1991 and President from 1991 to 1996. He was Mayor of Cotonou from 2003 to 2015. Soglo was married to Rosine Vieyra Soglo.

== Biography ==

Soglo was born in French Togoland. He studied law and economics at the University of Paris and the École nationale d'administration. Soglo met his future wife, a Beninese student named Rosine Vieyra, in 1947, while both were studying in France as teenagers. The couple married on 2 July 1958. They had two sons, Léhady (born 1960) and Ganiou Soglo (born 1962).

After receiving degrees in law and economics from the University of Paris, Soglo returned to Benin (then called Dahomey) and was the inspector of finance (1965–1967) before his cousin, Colonel Christophe Soglo, overthrew President Sourou-Migan Apithy and appointed his relative, Nicéphore, as minister of finance and economic affairs. Following the 1972 coup that brought Mathieu Kérékou to power, he left the country and held positions at international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

In the late 1980s, faced with growing dissatisfaction...