Category: Ivory Coast

– Advertisement – At least five people have been killed on Saturday during voting in Ivory Coast’s controversial presidential election. Votes are now being counted in a presidential election which was also boycotted by the opposition. Former president, Henri Konan Bédié, and the former prime minister, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, decided to boycott the election which they claim amounts to electoral coup. Most of the anger related to the election was over President Ouattara’s decision to seek a third term in office. That decision has sparked protests and agitations with his…

– Advertisement – Ivorians are voting in a controversial presidential election which has been boycotted by the opposition. Former president, Henri Konan Bédié, and the former prime minister, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, decided to boycott the election weeks ago. They have also asked their supporters to disrupt the electoral process which they claim amounts to electoral coup. Laurent Gbagbo and a former prime minister, Guillaume Soro have all been barred from contesting in the election. In Gbagbo’s first public comments since he was toppled in 2011 he said “What awaits us…

– Advertisement – Thousands of opposition supporters in Ivory Coast on Saturday held a major protest against President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to stand again for office. They gathered in a stadium in the main city, Abidjan, to continue agitations over President Ouattara’s third term bid. Many of them were dressed in the national colours of green and white and carried banners calling the third term bid illegal. Photo: Reuters The country’s main opposition presidential candidate, Henri Konan Bédié had called for a civil disobedience campaign to stop the incumbent Ouattara…