Ivory Coast Ex-Foreign Minister Amara Essy is Dead

In Côte d'Ivoire, diplomat Amara Essy died on 7 April 2025 at his home in Abidjan at the age of 82. The country loses an emblematic figure of his diplomacy.

The Ivorian diplomat Essy Amara, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of his country under Presidents Houphouët Boigny and Henri Konan Bédié, died this Tuesday, 8 April at his home in Abidjan, around 02:00 in the morning. Born on 20 December 1944 in Bouaké, city located in the centre of...

The former Ivorian Foreign Minister, Amara Essy died on the night of April 7-8, 2025, at her home in Abidjan, at the age of 80. Amara Essy left behind an invaluable legacy in African and international diplomacy. A crack of African diplomacy went away. Amara Essy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, from 1990 to 1999, drew her reverence from her home on the night of April 7-8, 2025. Near Félix Houphouët-Boigny, he wa…

He who was in charge of Ivorian diplomacy for more than a decade in the 1990s was declared a presidential candidate in October 2015 before giving up three weeks of voting.

Ivory Coast Ex-Foreign Minister Amara Essy is Dead

Former Ivory Coast foreign minister and seasoned diplomat, Amara Essy, has died at the age of 80, state television announced on Tuesday. Essy, a prominent figure in Ivorian politics and diplomacy, was a close associate of the country’s founding president, Felix Houphouet-Boigny. He served as foreign minister throughout the 1990s, playing a central role in shaping the West African nation’s foreign policy. His diplomatic career spanned several dec…

The Ivorian diplomat Amara Essy died on the night of 7 April 2025 in Abidjan, at the age of 81, leaving behind him an invaluable legacy in African and international diplomacy. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire under Presidents Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Henri Konan Bédié from 1990 to 1999, he contributed greatly to the consolidation of Ivorian diplomacy on the international scene. Amara Essy served in several countries, includi…