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President Hifikepunye Pohamba suspended Lieutenant General Martin Shalli from his post as Chief of Defence Force in 2009 over corruption allegations, dating back to the time when Shalli served as Namibia ’ s High Commissioner to Zambia .. During the time of the suspension, Peter Nambundunga acted as Chief.
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Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of Namibia
The transition from the 15-year rule of President Sam Nujoma to his successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2005 went smoothly.
Nujoma was succeeded as President of Namibia by Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2005.
He also held talks with Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba and signed an agreement on public health cooperation with Pohamba.
Ohangwena region is one of the regions where many of the politicians are from, including President Hifikepunye Pohamba, Hidipo Hamutenya ( President of the RDP ), Deputy Minister Pohamba Shifeta and several other ministers.
* Led by President Hifikepunye Pohamba, in office since 21 March 2005
He finished in second place with 88, 640 votes ( 10. 91 %) behind SWAPO candidate and incumbent President Hifikepunye Pohamba ( 75. 25 %).
Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba ( born August 18, 1935 ) is the second and current President of Namibia.
This move is widely believed to mean that Geingob is intended to be the successor of Hifikepunye Pohamba as President of Namibia.
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Chen Binghe also met President Pohamba that day.
While Pohamba replaced Nujoma as the President of Namibia, Nujoma stayed on as President of SWAPO.
In early October 2007, however, Nujoma said that he had no intention of seeking re-election as SWAPO President and would stand aside in favor of Pohamba, the Vice-President of SWAPO, later in the year, after 47 years as party leader.
Pohamba was accordingly elected unopposed as SWAPO President on 29 November 2007 at a party congress.
Pohamba with United States President George W. Bush in June 2005.
Although there was speculation that Nujoma would seek re-election as SWAPO President in 2007 and then run for President of Namibia again in 2009, he denied these rumours in early October 2007, saying that he intended to step down as party leader in favour of Pohamba.
On November 29, 2007, Pohamba was elected as SWAPO President at a party congress ; he was the only candidate to be nominated and no voting was deemed necessary.
On March 21, 2005, when Pohamba was sworn in as President of Namibia, he announced that he was appointing Angula as Prime Minister of Namibia.
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The FARC suspended talks in November 2000, to protest what it called " paramilitary terrorism " but returned to the negotiating table in February 2001, following 2 days of meetings between President Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel Marulanda.
Following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, and the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, executive power was assumed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which dissolved the parliament, and suspended the constitution.
In 2000, he hosted two summits at Sharm El-Sheikh and one at Taba in an effort to resume the Camp David negotiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted President George W. Bush for another summit on Middle East peace process.
In 1816, however, after finding the burden of the Senate intolerable, he suspended the legislature and turned his post into President for Life.
Although it did not sever ties with the People's Republic of China, expressing the intention to continue relations, Beijing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President Anote Tong to change his mind.
On March 26, 1991, after 4 days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers, led by former President Amadou Toumani Touré, arrested President Traoré and suspended the constitution.
On 26 March 1991, after four days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers, led by current President Amadou Toumani Touré, arrested President Traoré and suspended the constitution.
Although the President was unharmed, 21 people were killed in the bombing, including the South Korean deputy Prime Minister, and Burma suspended diplomatic relations in response.
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the privilege, but, owing to the vehement opposition he faced, obtained congressional authorization for the same.
Jan Pronk, the President of COP 6, suspended COP-6 without agreement, with the expectation that negotiations would later resume.
** The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
Because of the huge debt taken on by the U. S. Federal Government to finance the Revolutionary War, silver coins struck by the government left circulation, and in 1806 President Jefferson suspended the minting of silver coins.
Blatter also received criticism for not postponing his 2011 election in which his term as FIFA President was extended through 2015, despite the fact that all other candidates for the role had been suspended or withdrew.
These programs were undercut significantly by the Global Gag Rule, an initiative put in place by President Ronald Reagan, suspended by President Bill Clinton, and re-instated by President George W. Bush.
The Global Gag Rule "... required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations ...." The Global Gag Rule was again suspended as one of the first official acts by United States President Barack Obama.
Typhus was one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before President Richard Nixon suspended all non-defensive aspects of the U. S. biological weapons program in 1969.
In August 1867, President Andrew Johnson suspended Secretary of War Edwin Stanton pending the next session of the Senate.
* Laws take effect unless suspended by Secretary of the Interior or President of the United States
After the KMT lost the Mainland in the Chinese Civil War, the government was evacuated to Taiwan, where the term limits for the President specified in the 1947 constitution were suspended.
Within the term of President Néstor Kirchner, from 2003 onwards, Argentina suspended its policy of automatic alignment with the United States and moved closer to other Latin American countries.
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Lieutenant General Arvydas Pocius, Lithuanian Armed Forces | Lithunanian Army is invested as Chief of Defense by President of Lithuania | President Dalia Grybauskaite in 2009.
* 2001 – U. S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes Meriwether Lewis from Lieutenant to Captain.
On the night of May 9, 1846, Frémont received a courier, Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie, bringing messages from President James Polk.
On 20 March 2008, Reuters reported that President Guebuza had dismissed the Chief and Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant General Lagos Lidimo ( FRELIMO ) and Lieutenant General Mateus Ngonhamo ( RENAMO ), replacing them with Brigadier General Paulino Macaringue as Chief of Defence Force and Major-general Olímpio Cambora as Vice-Chief of Defence Force.
Alongside Barre, the Supreme Revolutionary Council ( SRC ) that assumed power after President Sharmarke's assassination was led by Lieutenant Colonel Salaad Gabeyre Kediye and Chief of Police Jama Korshel.
Lieutenant General Mohamed Ali Samatar, then Vice President, subsequently served as de facto head of state for the next several months.
There are also seven ex officio members — the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the Assembly, Superintendent of Public Instruction, president and vice president of the Alumni Associations of UC, and the UC President.
* January 3 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
* December 31 – A coup d ' état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
President Alphonse Massamba-Débat had Ngouabi and Second Lieutenant Eyabo arrested on July 29, 1968.
The Lieutenant Governor is the President of the California Senate and acts as the governor when the Governor is unable to execute the office, including whenever the Governor leaves the state.
He served as President pro tempore of the Indiana Senate for a short time and briefly held the office of acting Lieutenant Governor.
The spirit of the reforms was given more content by the new NSC leadership appointed by President Reagan in November 1987: National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci and Deputy National Security Adviser Lieutenant General Colin Powell.
The final military dictator, Manuel Noriega, had been belligerent toward the USA culminating in the killing of a US Marine Lieutenant and US invasion ordered by President, George H. W. Bush.
In 1968, the Guard overthrew President Arnulfo Arias in a coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Omar Torrijos and Major Boris Martínez.
On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.
Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Taylor who later became the 12th President of the United States.
He was usually referred to as President of the Council or Administrator of Upper Canada ( never as Lieutenant Governor ).
The Lieutenant Governor is a weak office compared to other counterparts ( in other states including Texas, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State's Senate, while in California the Lieutenant Governor assumes all of the Governor's powers when the sitting Governor is out of the state ), as it only possesses the powers and duties that the Governor assigns to him or her.
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