L'Intelligent

By becoming candidates for the election of the President of the Republic of October 31, 2020, there is no doubt that you have decided to bring the healing remedy to the sighs of the people.

Use all means, except those that go against the regulations in force, to seduce voters.

The campaign is open!

Fraternité Matin

Since this morning, the various candidates can present their projects to the populations.

Four candidates were selected by the Constitutional Council, recalls the newspaper.

They are the outgoing president, Alassane Ouattara, candidate of the RHDP, Henri Konan Bédié, standard bearer of the PDCI-RDA, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, president of the FPI, and Kouadio Konan Bertin independent candidate.

what does Côte d'Ivoire have in store for us by October 31

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The question deserves to be asked while the opposition has been on the rise since the announcement, on August 6, of Alassane Ouattara's candidacy for a third term.

It must be said that on March 5, recalls Le Point Afrique, the president, aged 78, announced that he would not stand again, in order to

A decision applauded everywhere in Africa, especially by young people.

On the side of the privileged partner of Côte d'Ivoire, France, Emmanuel Macron had even

Eight months later, the tone has changed

Le Point Afrique.

Opponents of the Ivorian president are now appealing to the UN.

And the chanceries are worried.

in a country which has experienced nearly fifteen years of crisis, anything can rekindle fears and mistrust, especially in places damaged in the past.

Le Monde Afrique

the president of the Collective of victims in Côte d'Ivoire brought together the people of Yao Séhi and Doukouré, two neighborhoods near Yopougon, who had fought at the time.

There is a need to calm spirits that are heating up again as the October 31 presidential election approaches.

To address the tensions, which have escalated since the violence in August which left some fifteen dead in the country after the announcement of Alassane Ouattara's candidacy for a controversial third term.

ghosts of ivoirité

Almost twenty years after having been one of the ferments of the politico-military crisis, the question of ivoirité is in fact reinvigorated in the campaign for the presidential election of October 31

At the risk of awakening the old identity demons.

This supposedly cultural concept, which sets up national preference as a dogma, was relaunched by Bédié in the 1990s after the death of Houphouët-Boigny,

Jeune Afrique.

Supposed to distinguish the

Ivorians from the

his main objective was to eliminate Alassane Ouattara from the race for the supreme office and had led to a vast policy of excluding citizens according to their origins.

twenty years have passed, but the old ghosts of Ivorianism still haunt the Ebrié lagoon

Jeune Afrique

Perhaps less visible, but just as dangerous as the presidential election approaches.

In a tense campaign, while many fear the country will fall back into crisis, Ivoirité has once again become a political argument.

Each camp accuses the other of making it its business in an insidious way, at the risk of awakening the old demons of identity.

hate speech, marked by xenophobia and other hateful remarks, should no longer have the right of citizenship in this country which has not yet finished healing its wounds.

That said, the campaign now launched, one can wonder about the number of Ivorians who will take the trouble to withdraw their voting cards, all, it is known, not being to be enlisted .

In any case

all the harm we can wish for Côte d'Ivoire is the sacred union of its daughters and sons to negotiate, gently and in peace, the dangerous turn that it is about to prime.