Mr. Sassou , who succeeds Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria as chairman of the 53-member bloc , is a smartly dressed former paratrooper who has long used his perch in the tiny Congo Republic , on the continent 's Atlantic coast , to speak out on behalf of Africa .
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