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MR BOB Denard, a colourful and well-known French mercenary who staged coups, battled communism and fought for French interests and his own across post-colonial Africa and elsewhere for over three decades, has died. He was 78.
Mr Denard died on Saturday, his sister said by phone on Sunday.
He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and was known to have cardiovascular problems.
Mr Denard was twice convicted in France for his roles in an attempted coup in Marxist-controlled Benin in 1977 and a short-lived coup in Comoros in 1995.
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