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A court in Benin on Thursday sentenced two former allies of President Patrice Talon to 20 years in jail on charges of ...

Two men close to Benin’s president were sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday, following their arrest last year on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country.