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Oct
17
2020
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast leader rejects talks as rivals seek vote boycott

Ivory Coast leader rejects talks as rivals seek vote boycott

NEWS
ANGE ABOA IVORY Coast President Alassane Ouattara has rejected calls for negotiations from rivals urging a boycott of an October 31 election they say he should not be standing for. Ouattara's main challengers, ex-President Henri Konan Bedie and ex-prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan, accuse the 78-year-old former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist of violating the constitution by standing for a third term. Protests against Ouattara's candidacy have killed more than a dozen people since August. Thousands of cheering supporters greeted Ouattara in Bouake, the capital of the rebellion that swept him to power in 2011 after a disputed election, as…
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Nov
15
2020
By The African Mirror
After Ivory Coast election, fighting comes to a once-calm town

After Ivory Coast election, fighting comes to a once-calm town

NEWS
ANGE ABOA BEFORE last month's presidential election, M'Batto in central Ivory Coast was a small, peaceful town where ethnic groups intermarried and churches and mosques existed side by side without friction, residents say. Two weeks on and the streets are littered with empty shotgun cartridges, shops have been burned down and at least six people are dead, killed in ethnic clashes that some fear could herald a repeat of Ivory Coast's civil wars in 2002 and 2010-2011. The October 31 election, which was boycotted by the opposition, opened up old wounds around the question of identity in Ivory Coast between…
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Oct
30
2020
By The African Mirror
A post-election crisis could scupper Ivory Coast’s economic gains

A post-election crisis could scupper Ivory Coast’s economic gains

BUSINESS
ANGE ABOA and AARON ROSS AS sleek highway overpasses and shopping malls sprouted in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan following the 2010-11 civil war, investors often pointed to 2020 as the year that could unleash the country's full economic potential. A successful transfer of power when President Alassane Ouattara's second term expired, they said, would help banish memories of the disputed 2010 election that led to the war and attract other investors still wary about instability. But as Ivory Coast heads toward an election on Saturday that Ouattara is unexpectedly contesting and his main opponents are trying to sabotage, that…
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Oct
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Six killed in Ivory Coast town ahead of presidential election

Six killed in Ivory Coast town ahead of presidential election

NEWS
AT least six people have been killed in a port town in southern Ivory Coast this week, the mayor said on Thursday, as supporters and opponents of President Alassane Ouattara trade blame for rising violence ahead of the October 31 election. The authorities decreed a curfew on Wednesday night in response to the killings in Dabou, which Mayor Jean-Claude Niangne said were carried out by men armed with assault rifles and machetes. Violence has broken out sporadically since August when Ouattara announced his candidacy for a third term, a move his opponents say violates the constitution. In all, more than…
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Sep
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Defiant junta rejects pressure to let Conde leave Guinea

Defiant junta rejects pressure to let Conde leave Guinea

NEWS
SALIOU SAMB GUINEA’S military junta has refused to bow to regional pressure and allow President Alpha Conde, detained since his overthrow on September 5, to leave the country. On Friday Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara and Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo paid a one-day visit to Conakry to ask coup leader Mamady Doumbouya, a special forces commander and former French Legionnaire, for Conde's release. Ouattara had been hoping to leave Guinea with Conde, a senior regional government official told Reuters. "The former president is and remains in Guinea. We will not yield to any pressure," the junta said in a statement…
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Apr
08
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Gbagbo “free to return” to Ivory Coast’

‘Gbagbo “free to return” to Ivory Coast’

NEWS
LOUCOUMANE COULIBALY FORMER Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and one of his close allies have permission to return home following their acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, President Alassane Ouattara said on Wednesday. But Gbagbo's return could be complicated by a 20-year sentence given to him in absentia in November 2019 by an Ivorian court for misappropriating funds from the regional central bank. While Ouattara did not say whether Gbagbo had been pardoned, his return could ease political tensions in the world's top cocoa producing nation after an October presidential election marred by violence.…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
President Ouattara keeps in the family

President Ouattara keeps in the family

NEWS
LOUCOUMANE COULIBALY  IVORY Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his younger brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as minister of defence, part of a slate of new appointments announced on Tuesday. The new defence minister will have to contend with Islamist violence spilling over from Burkina Faso in the north, and continue reforms that have calmed a series of army mutinies that threatened stability in the world's top cocoa-producing nation. Three soldiers were killed when dozens of militants attacked two military posts last week. Tene Birahima Ouattara was named interim defence minister in March after the death of Hamed Bakayoko, who had…
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May
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast Prime Minister in hospital

Ivory Coast Prime Minister in hospital

NEWS
ANGE ABOA  IVORY Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi, 65, has been admitted to hospital in Paris for medical tests, two sources close to him said. Achi, a close confidant of President Alassane Ouattara, was named prime minister in March following the death of the West African cocoa producer's second premier in less than eight months. The sources said Achi was being treated for "severe fatigue" suffered since his appointment in March. Achi replaced Hamed Bakayoko, who died of cancer at 56. Bakayoko had replaced Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who died following cardiac issues last July. A government spokesman was not immediately…
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