As every day this week, we offer you the portraits of the 4 Ivorian presidential candidates.
Today, it is the turn of the outgoing president, Alassane Ouattara.
In March, he said he did not want to run.
Make way for a new generation.
But the sudden death of his dolphin, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, decided him to run for a 3rd term.
A candidacy which crystallizes tensions and federates the opposition against it.
Thais Brouck report.
In Cameroon, the emotion is far from having subsided after the assassination of 7 students in a private college in Kumba, in the English-speaking region.
On Saturday October 24, unidentified men armed with rifles and machetes broke into a sixth grade class, and shot point blank at students in the middle of class.
The attack attributed to the English-speaking separatists has still not been claimed.
Report from our special envoys to Kumba, Marcel Amoko and Michel Mvondo.
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