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Tony Blair Institute positioned to benefit from Gabon's imminent entry into Commonwealth

Tony Blair and Ali Bongo in Brussels on 17 February.
Tony Blair and Ali Bongo in Brussels on 17 February. © Twitter @PresidentABO
On the eve of the Commonwealth experts' third and final official visit to Libreville, which should definitively seal Gabon's entry into the organisation, the former UK Prime Minister has pitched the services of his firm, the Tony Blair Institute, to Ali Bongo. [...] (279 words)
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