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The secrets behind a lightning putsch attempt

Benin president Patrick Talon's security advisers, who pleaded against confining the population to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, are the ones who, last month, ordered 20 or so arrests to respond to a plot…which was hatched in less than three weeks. [...]
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