Ivory Coast: Hamed Bakayoko buried in Séguéla
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Photo taken on March 17, 2021 during the official tribute to Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who died on March 10, 2021, at the age of 56.
Hamed Bakayoko was buried in family privacy on Friday March 19 in his town of Séguéla (North), at the end of a week of national mourning.
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Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who died on March 10 in Germany, was buried in family privacy on Friday March 19 in his town of Séguéla (North), at the end of a week of national mourning.
Many of them made the trip
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From our special correspondent in Séguéla
,
Sidy Yansané
The courtyard of the Great Mosque of Séguéla was packed, as were the surrounding streets, occupied by hundreds of believers who had come to accompany the late Prime Minister to his final resting place.
Dressed in white, the color of mourning, the head of state Alassane Ouattara and several ministers were present.
We took part with President Alassane Ouattara @AOuattara_PRCI in the mortuary prayer for the rest of the soul of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, on Friday March 19, 2021, at the great mosque of Séguéla.
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- DOMINIQUE OUATTARA (@dominiqueouat) March 19, 2021
As well as many admirers of Hamed Bakayoko.
With tears in his eyes, this young man comes from the Abidjan commune of Abobo, of which HamBak was the mayor: “
Words fail me.
Hambak was our mayor.
He gave us everything in Abobo.
He transformed Abobo.
But it was God who wanted it.
We do not have a choice.
So we leave it to God
”.
The regional military chaplain of Bouaké also came
to pay tribute to the
one who was also Minister of Defense: “
We came as a delegation to pay tribute to our boss.
Because he has done a lot for the chaplains.
May the earth be light to him and may God welcome him to his paradise.
Wearing a black tee-shirt bearing the effigy of HamBak, this native of the city of Man, in the west, also wanted to share a prayer: "
We are very shocked, the Ivorian youth is why we came to support our brother.
May God welcome him to his own paradise
”
The political idol of young people will now receive recollections in his family ranch in Séguéla.
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