A speech just before the presidential election on October 31 to invite dialogue and thus avoid “disaster”. “Gbagbo speaks for the first time”, launches “in the headlines” the independent Ivorian daily Soir Info.
“I understand civil disobedience, I share it,” Laurent Gbagbo said on the cover of Nouveau Réveil. This daily close to Henri Konan Bédié’s PDCI also notes that in the interview he gave to our colleague Denise Époté from TV5 Monde, Laurent Gbagbo clearly placed himself “on the side of the opposition”. To which Le Nouveau Réveil on the front page adds this prediction by Laurent Gbagbo: “After 31 October, it’s a disaster”.
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“9 years later, Gbagbo breaks the hut”, excited Le Temps. This daily newspaper, which is close to him, found the former president of the republic “equal to himself. Calm, wise and determined for the fight. He is in good shape,” says Le Temps, “the chef has spoken. And well spoken. He spoke loud, very loud, “said this newspaper.
After watching this interview with Laurent Gbagbo, the newspaper Today launches in a flourishing style this very Abidjanese remark: “That is why we miss him! This is why we miss Gbagbo so much, improving today. He appealed to all of us during this interview. ”
Also in France, several dailies are opening their columns this morning for this Ivorian news
The newspaper l’Opinion thus emphasizes that Laurent Gbagbo broke the silence because he “politically does not want to wear the hat for the predictable violence after elections”. In this newspaper, President Gbagbo’s spokesman Justin Koné-Katinan stresses that Laurent Gbagbo “attracts the attention of the international community by warning that it is not too late to avoid violence, go to national consultations, carry out social cohesion “Everyone will take responsibility for their actions towards the people and before history,” warns Justin Koné-Katinan in the statement.
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Recently, on RFI and France24, Ivorian President Ouattara said the World Bank placed “Côte d’Ivoire” at the gates of paradise. But in France, this morning, a daily newspaper finds paradise very close to hell
This is the newspaper Liberation. Which reveals the contents of a report “remained confidential” for the European Union, “dated April 2018”, in which condemned in “a not very diplomatic language”, the “growing disruption of the ruling class (Ivorian) of daily reality that the population is experiencing. ”This report from the European Union also points to“ corruption (there) remains ”in the Ivory Coast, reports Liberation, stressing that the poverty rate is“ around 46.3% and condemns almost half of the population to live below the poverty line ”.
Dual political and social context, emphasized before the end of the Ivorian presidential election
“Never in ten years has an opinion poll raised so many fears in the Ivory Coast,” warns Liberation again. Which newspaper finds out that the “dialogue of the deaf” prevails there “makes fear worst”, and recalls that the UN has just announced the “repatriation of all their” non-essential “staff”.
After reporting in Assouindé, southeastern Côte d’Ivoire, the liberation went to the village’s oldest primary school, which will serve as a polling station tomorrow. “But out of 1300 registered, only a hundred people came to pick up their ballot papers. Is it because of hostility to the outgoing president? For fear of collision? In the village, these questions cause an embarrassing silence “, Libé indicates, noting that Abidjan” is empty or barred for fear of a tense weekend “.
The third five-year period for Alassane Ouattara? It is “the core of all the controversy and all the tension, which gives fear that the country will return to political violence”, also warns Le Figaro. “The streets of Abidjan are certainly very quiet, but it is more fear of violence and the traumatic memory of the post – election crisis that seems to dominate”, estimates this daily, presenting outgoing President Alassane Ouattara as the “favorite of the vote” tomorrow “for the delivery of three” Le Figaro formula.
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