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Raila Odinga: The diplomat many didn't know

The late Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Late on January 16, 2011, in Abidjan’s Presidential Palace, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and three of us aides sat across a long table from Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his top generals, led by the powerful Army Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Philippe Mangou.

The meeting was not going well.

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