When Assimi Goïta, then an unknown colonel in Mali’s special forces, took over as head of the junta that overthrew Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) on 18 August, 2020, Togo’s foreign minister Robert Dussey was one of the first to contact him.
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