The military-metropolitan team

In Paris, General Robert Gueï is supported by a troop of retired generals who have gone into business. Most prominent is Gen. Jeannou Lacaze, Chief of Staff of the French army in the 1980s; he was security advisor to the Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko, then to military leaders Gnassingbé Eyadéma in Togo and Idriss Déby in Chad.

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Robert Gueï, Jeannou Lacaze, Zaïrean, Mobutu Sese Seko, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togo, Idriss Déby, Chad, Londreau, Jacques Dewatre, Jacques Lanxade, Raymond Germanos, Lebanese, Rwanda, François Mitterrand, Guy Laberti, Alassane Ouattara, Laurent Gbagbo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Laurent Fabius, Catherine Tasca, Guy Penne, Pierre Joxe, Nicéphore Soglo, Benin, Georges Serre, Malagasy, Jacques Chirac, Michel Dupuch, Vincent Bolloré, United States, Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, réseau d'Afrique, Parti Socialiste, Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire, Front Populaire Ivoirien

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