Currently finance minister Wadagni will inherit a strong economy but widespread political disenchantment after the failed coup in December whose leader Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri remains at large...
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Currently finance minister Wadagni will inherit a strong economy but widespread political disenchantment after the failed coup in December whose leader Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri remains at large...
Benin's intelligence service is now trying to trace the external connections that it believes may have helped Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri and up to 200 of the country's elite troops to launch the putsch...
Pascal Tigri is from a prominent family from Tanguiéta in the far north-west close to the borders with Burkina one of the areas most afflicted by jihadist violence...
Late on 9 December the putschists' leader Lieutenant-Col Pascal Tigri was still at large...