Côte d'Ivoire: the reasons for a tense political climate

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In Bouaké, Ivorians wait their turn to vote in the presidential election on October 31, 2010. AFP / SIA KAMBOU

By: Alain Foka

Eight months before the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire, the political climate is most tense and most uncertain. Is there a risk that the country of Houphouët-Boigny will fall back into the violence that shook it at the beginning of the 2000s?

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Can we envisage a free and peaceful presidential election, as promised by President Alassane Dramane Ouattara?

With our guests:
- Serge Bilé , Franco-Ivorian journalist and writer, author of "Mes années Houphouët", published by Kofiba;
- Tiken Jah Fakoly , Ivorian artist;
- André Silver Konan , journalist, correspondent for Jeune Afrique in Abidjan and political scientist;
- Nathalie Kouakou N'Guessan , mediator and president of the NGO "Vivre sans violence".

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