Lionel Zinsou: Benin's new Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou left his lucrative job as head of European investment firm PAI Partners to become Benin's prime minister less than a year before general elections. In an interview with AFP in his upscale, art-filled house, Zinsou said he wanted to try to tackle people's everyday problems in the few months he has left until February-March polls next year. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.