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In the spotlight: Bédié, Ouattara, Gbagbo, the meeting of the three in Côte d'Ivoire
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Former presidents Henri Konan Bédié (left) and Laurent Gbagbo (right) surround Alassane Ouattara, the current Ivorian head of state, during a press statement after their reunion on July 14, 2022. © AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO
By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
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The meeting of the three presidents, all the press is obviously talking about.
Head of State Alassane Ouattara received his two predecessors, Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday.
"Twelve
years later, Gbagbo, Bédié and Ouattara, at the presidential palace
: strong images
", title
Yeclo
, which shows this meeting with a series of photos.
Fraternité Matin
says for its part: "
Arrived at 4:50 p.m. local time, Laurent Gbagbo was welcomed by Alassane Ouattara on the steps of the presidential palace in Abidjan where the two men hugged each other and walked hand in hand into the room. of the little palace
.
“
So Laurent, are you okay
?
And your trip, it went well
?
“Questioned Alassane Ouattara welcoming Laurent Gbagbo.
"
Everything went well
," retorted Laurent Gbagbo.
Henri Konan Bédié for his part arrived four minutes later, at 4:54 p.m., and was also welcomed by Alassane Ouattara, still tells
Fraternité Matin
.
The President of the Republic inquired about the news of his eldest Bédié in these terms: “
President, how are you
?
How is my big sister
?
".
"
Yes it's fine
!
She started to recover
, ”replied Henri Konan Bédié.
A meeting that will become regular
On the merits of the discussions, not much emerges.
The three men spoke behind closed doors but spoke out via a joint statement.
It was Laurent Gbagbo who read it to the press because he is the youngest, the youngest, we understand from reading
L'Infodrome
.
The site explains to us that, according to the words of this declaration, it “
was a meeting of reunion to renew contact and exchange
”.
The President of the Republic and his two predecessors "
expressed their desire to make this first meeting a leaven of the easing of the socio-political climate in Côte d'Ivoire
", says L'Infodrome.
Alassane Ouattara obviously wants to renew this type of meeting on a more regular basis.
This meeting in any case was “
historic
” by its symbol, according to
Jeune Afrique
.
An appointment of “
reconciliation
” and “
appeasement
” which is indeed intended to become the first of a series, writes the magazine.
The horror in eastern DRC
The newspaper
Liberation
devotes a double page to it.
“
Riot, murder then cannibalism
”, the newspaper found “
witnesses to an atrocious crime committed in mid-June in Kalima
”, in the province of Maniema.
"
Widely relayed on social networks, it illustrates the return of racist hatred in the region
".
“
When we arrived in Kalima on June 5,
testifies a cowherd who came to sell cattle with friends from South Kivu,
the climate was tense, the restaurants refused to serve us.
We were told we were going to be killed and eaten.
We thought it was just words as usual
,” he explains.
“
Nothing then seemed to predict, continues
Liberation,
that thirteen days later, one of them, Fidèle Ntayoberwa, 50, would be killed, cut up, gutted and burned by the population
”
.
He is a member of the Banyamulenge community, Rwandophone pastors from the plateaus of South Kivu where their ancestors settled in the 19th century and who still speak the language of the neighboring country.
A neighbor with whom relations have become strained, particularly around the issue of M23, a group possibly supported by Rwanda, according to accusations from Kinshasa.
So in the east of the DRC, some accuse the Rwandophone minorities of being infiltrated.
But today, the assassins of Fidèle and their accomplices are not prosecuted, tells us
Liberation,
and "
the executives of the UDPS did not have to answer for the macabre turn
" taken during one of their demonstrations.
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