Ex-Credit Suisse CEO Thiam Bids for Chance to Lead Ivory Coast
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The United States Provides $19 5 Million to Counter Violent Extremism in Côte d Ivoire
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The vengeance of old men
A dangerous election looms in Ivory Coast
Geriatric rivals argue over the rules, as fears of another bloody election grow
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HE LAST time Ivory Coast had a close election, 3,000 people were killed. So when a policeman in Abidjan, its commercial capital, recently saw men with machetes pouring out of vans, chatting amicably with his police chief and then attacking nearby unarmed protesters while the police looked on, he complained to Amnesty International, a human-rights watchdog. “Their presence was not coincidental,” he said. “This reminds me of the two past crises when militias were sowing terror among the people.”