Background
ALLEY, Alphonse was born on April 9, 1930 in Bassila. Son of Amadou Alley and Amina Akim.
ALLEY, Alphonse was born on April 9, 1930 in Bassila. Son of Amadou Alley and Amina Akim.
Primary schools at Lome, Togo, secondary school in Senegal, and military colls, in France and Ivory Coast.
Joined 5th Senegalese Rifle Regiment, Dakar. Server! in Indo-China 1950-1953, Morocco 1955-1956, Algeria 1959-1961. Returned to Dahomey 1961.
Second-Lieutenant Dahomeyan Army 1961, Captain 1962, Major 1964, Lieutenant-Colonel 1967, Chief of Staff 1967.
President, of Dahomey December 1967-1968. Secretary-General for National Defence 1970-1972.
Arrested February 1973, sentenced to twenty years’ detention.