US EditionCôte d’Ivoire’s Ouattara Anchors Fourth Presidential Bid to Economic Growth
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Côte d’Ivoire’s Ouattara anchors fourth presidential bid to economic growth
The NewsCôte d’Ivoire’s 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara is pitching his bid to run the country for a fourth term on his experience, saying this will be crucial to lead the nation to upper middle-income status by 2030.Only experienced leadership can guide the country through “unprecedented security, economic, and monetary challenges,” said Ouattara, an economist and former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in a …
"A wave of crackdown on our cadres and activists," says Sébastien Dano Djédjé, the executive president of the PPA-CI, less than three months from the presidential election.
Following the violence in Yopougon on the night of Friday, 1 August 2025, the Minister of the Interior and Security, General Vagondo Diomandé said on Sunday, 3 August, that 11 people were apprehended by Ivorian security forces. Among them, officials of the PPA-CI, the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, who denounces arbitrary arrests.
Ouattara seeks fourth term; rivals face charges
Six members of former President Laurent Gbagbo’s party were arrested over the weekend, sparking fears of escalating political repression. The African People’s Party (PPA) accused authorities of abducting its members overnight and taking them to undisclosed locations. “A wave of repression is sweeping across our leaders and activists,” said PPA executive president Sebastien Dano Djedje at a Sunday press conference. Among those detained is a subst…
Josué Kouamé, activist of Laurent Gbagbo's party, a member of the PPA-CI section of Yopougon-Kouté, is said to be among those arrested following the violent events on the night of Friday, August 1, 2025 in Yopougon.
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