Recent elections have left the ruling RHDP in a comfortable political position but Tidjane Thiam s ascent in the PDCI has raised the stakes, Unless a yet-to-be-known actor has a spectacular political ascent, the 2025 presidential election will be a contest between the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) on the one hand – the party has begun its recovery from three decades of sclerosis under the stagnant leadership of its former president, the late Henri Konan Bédié – and the Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) on the other.
As the security threats multiply and international troops are forced out, the military rulers in the Sahel have equivocated about their commitments to restoring civilian rule
, The promise of electoral contests to restore constitutional and nominally civilian rule will be a key issue across much of West and West-Central Africa this year, and particularly in the continuing battle of wills between Sahelian military regimes and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The former chief executive of Prudential and Credit Suisse is returning to national politics as presidential contender, A big choice faces the internal elections committee of the Parti démocratique de Côte d Ivoire (PDCI), the long-time ruling party now in opposition, as they prepare to choose a new leader after the death of former head of state Henri Konan Bédié on 1 August. Will they nit-pick over the rules to shut out Tidjane Thiam who has returned home after more than two decades? Or will they brush aside such quibbles aside to open the door to a candidate who could give the PDCI a serious chance in the presidential elections in 2025?
, Eight years after being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and almost two years after his final acquittal for crimes against humanity, Charles Blé Goudé, the once fiery leader of the Jeune Patriotes youth movement, set a measured tone as he returned home to Abidjan on 26 November.