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Considered the mastermind of a failed putsch, Kpatcha Gnassingbé, former Minister of Defense (2005-2007) aged 52, was sentenced in September 2011 to 20 years in prison for "conspiring against state security". He had been arrested on April 15, 2009 in front of the American embassy where he was trying

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Africa Confidential presents a Special Report on the Breton tycoon’s growing influence in Africa. Far from quitting the continent, Vincent Bolloré’s business and political interests in Africa are deepening – even as he faces trial in Paris for grand corruption in league with two West African leaders. By Andrew Weir and Nicolas Vescovacci, Billionaire Vincent Bollor&eacute, who has built up monopoly control over some of the biggest container terminals in Africa, is heading back to the Fren...