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Benin's Finance Minister, Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, will take over as the International Monetary Fund's Africa Department chief next month. He was once tipped as a potential prime minister but his career at the western Franc Zone's central bank in Senegal left him no time to build a political base at home. His promotion might have upset the powerful Bruno Amoussou, who helpfully lent credibility to President Mathieu Kérékou's re-election last year by standing as a no-hoper in the second round after a discouraged Nicéphore Soglo withdrew (AC Vol 42 No 6).

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Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, Senegal, Bruno Amoussou, Mathieu Kérékou, Nicéphore Soglo, Malawi, Goodall Gondwe, Nigeria, French, Michel Camdessus, Ivorian, Alassane Dramane Ouattara

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