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In Ivory Coast, the impossible reconciliation

2021-08-10T17:39:19.749Z


DECRYPTION - After thirty years of rivalry and a civil war, President Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo continue to clash.


They appeared together, hand in hand and all smiles.

Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivorian president and his predecessor, seemed, on July 27, like two old friends, happy to meet again after a long separation.

We give each other

"my brother",

we embrace each other between two complicit glances to the cameras that miss nothing for the moment.

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The separation was indeed long.

They have not seen each other for more than ten years and the winter of 2010, a few days before an election that would mark the history of Côte d'Ivoire.

But they are not friends and never have been.

“It was a beautiful actor's number, the nth in a series that never ends.

The only thing missing was Henri Konan Bédié, ”

a diplomat squeaks.

For more than thirty years, Laurent Gbagbo, Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bédié have cultivated their mutual hatred and their personal ambition, to the great misfortune of the country.

Côte d'Ivoire thus experienced, from 2002, a civil war which blocked the development

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Source: lefigaro

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