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at least six teachers kidnapped in Kumbo

At least six teachers were abducted on the morning of Tuesday, November 3, from a Presbyterian school in Kumbo in the English-speaking northwestern region. According to confirmatory sources affiliated with the RFI, the unidentified attackers were heavily armed. According to testimony from the teachers' associations, it was…

the international community calls for post-election reconciliation

The international community is concerned about the situation in Côte d'Ivoire following the presidential election. The preliminary results were announced this Tuesday, November 3 in the morning. The Independent Electoral Commission announces the victory of outgoing President Alassane Ouattara in a third term contested by the opposition. Outside Ivorian borders, several organizations and countries are…

Regulation Enforcement Round Opponents’ Houses in Ivory Coast: The place Are We?

Because the proclamation of the preliminary outcomes giving the re-election to a controversial third time period of Alassane Ouattara, the occasions in Abidjan are accelerating. Police had been dispatched on Tuesday afternoon, November 3, across the houses of a number of opponents following the creation yesterday by a Nationwide Transitional Council and the violence throughout the election interval.…

A number of thousand flee the Ivory Coast for concern of violence after the election, says the UN

Hundreds of individuals have fled to neighboring West African international locations from Côte d'Ivoire for concern of extra violence following a presidential election there marred by lethal unrest, the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated on Tuesday. The UN refugee company warned that violence and tensions surrounding Saturday's elections, which led President Alassane Ouattara right into a controversial third time period, had prompted greater than 3,200 individuals to hunt…

Ivory Coast President Ouattara makes a sniper, the opposition cries foul

Côte d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara has provisionally received a 3rd time period with 94.27% of the vote, the Electoral Fee introduced early on Tuesday, following a bitter election that triggered lethal violence and was boycotted by opposition voters. "Thus elected President of the Republic, Alassane Ouattara," introduced Kuibiert-Coulibaly Ibrahime, Head of the Electoral Fee. He stated the ultimate turnout for the October 31 election was 53.90%. The outcomes have to be validated by the nation's…

The UFDG maintains pressure on the streets to challenge the presidential election

In Guinea, the unsuccessful candidates for the presidential election on October 18, in the first round of outgoing President Alpha Condé, won, according to the preliminary results of Ceni, until Sunday night to lodge their appeal to the Constitutional Court. The institution was to rule before the end of the week by announcing the final results or canceling the vote. Until then, the UFDG, the largest…