'French Freemasons and their African lodge leaders play a key role in the current impasse in the Ivory Coast.

Virtually all the African leaders ranged against Laurent Gbagbo and supporting the elite cadre of French business and political leaders are Freemasons affiliated to the same lodges as the elite French business and political group. It is impossible to understand how Françafrique works without reference to the Masons.'

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