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looking ahead

Côte d’Ivoire: What Ouattara has in store for his third term

Re-elected on 31 October in the wake of an election disputed by his opponents, the president seems determined to open up the playing field. Will ... this be enough to reconcile a newly-divided country?

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on the run again

Lebanese flee crisis at home to seek better life in Africa

Feeling suffocated by an unprecedented economic crisis, an increasing number of Lebanese nationals are abandoning their home country for ... Africa.

In the Cloud

Temenos to expand to West Africa to target Francophone banks

Banking software provider Temenos plans to open an office in Côte d’Ivoire or Senegal to target francophone clients. ...

ill measured

Côte d’Ivoire: Freemason solidarity cracks with political crisis

The freemasons are well anchored in the political scene in Côte d'Ivoire. The political stand-off between the supporters of President Alassane ... Ouattara, and those who support the opposition PDCI is now creating faultlines in the fraternity of senior politicians who belong to the organisation.

a change is gonna come

Côte d’Ivoire: Ouattara reins in his troops at an emergency meeting

The Ivorian president summoned a meeting of several of his ministers and RHDP party officials to take stock of the country’s pre and post election ... violence.

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Ivory Coast former president Henri Konan Bedie talks while he stands with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara during a meeting to initiate a post-election dialogue in Abidjan

BROTHERLY CHAT

Côte d’Ivoire: Ouattara and Bédié meet for first time after two years

Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bédié met with one another for the first time in over two years on Wednesday 11 November. ...

prison heft

Côte d’Ivoire: Ouattara starts third term by jailing opposition leader

Since his arrest for his role in creating the National Transitional Council, the president of the FPI party, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, has taken ... on a new status as an opposition figure after joining Henri Konan Bédié’s call for “civil disobedience”. By jailing him, President Ouattara may have simply given him an extra veneer of credibility.

Former Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bedie, president of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI) speaks next to Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa, in Abidjan

growing stress

Côte d’Ivoire: Henri Konan Bédié faces pressure from all sides

While Henri Konan Bédié received Western ambassadors at his home on 4 November, several West African heads of state offered to mediate. What ... are the growing pressures being exerted today on the president of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire?

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Côte d’Ivoire: What happens now Ouattara has his third term?

The opposition in Côte d'Ivoire, after boycotting the polls, are trying to set up their own transitional government. Ouattara meanwhile is pressing ... with preparations for his third term.

Ivory Coast presidential candidate Guillaume Soro holds news conference in Paris

transitional body

Côte d’Ivoire: Guillaume Soro calls on army to block Alassane Ouattara

In a speech broadcast on social media, the former National Assembly president called for the creation of a transitional body and asked defence ... and security forces to block Alassane Ouattara’s third term.

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