Later Life and Death
After being released on amnesty, Apithy moved to Paris, where he lived out the rest of his life. On December 3, 1989, he died. Just days afterward, Kerekou proclaimed the end to socialism in Dahomey (renamed Benin in 1975), which he had established in November 1974.
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