Missing reporter stirs trouble on three continents

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Guy-Andre Kieffer is stirring up trouble again. A journalist with a nose for news that powerful people prefer buried, he is troubling three governments, a multi-million- pound industry and a nation on the cusp of war.

Thanks to the rumpled reporter, criminal investigations are under way into the secretive regime which runs Côte d'Ivoire and exports almost half the world's cocoa, raw ingredient for chocolate.

Except this time the tempest is caused not by an article detailing corruption but the author himself. Seven weeks ago he was bundled into a car by uniformed men and has not been seen since, prompting concern that Kieffer has been disposed of.

His would not be the first tale of abduction, torture and murder in Côte d'Ivoire, but potentially it could be the most explosive. The 54-year-old held French and Canadian citizenship and the two governments want answers.

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