Eric Edi

In March 2016, Human Rights Watch reported that the regime in power in Cote d’Ivoire has “not yet delivered justice for victims of grave crimes by both sides in the country’s 2010-2011 post-election crisis and called [President] Alassane Ouattara and his new justice minister, 

At last, on January 28, 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened the combined trials of President Laurent Gbagbo and Mr.

Although the national reconciliation process is a fiasco, the deeply fractured Ivory Coast is mulling a presidential election in 2015. The subject is raising a lot of controversies as some argue that a presidential election is inappropriate and others claim that it would end the current crisis.

On 16 December 2014, the government of Ivory Coast inaugurated the Henri Konan Bédié Bridge, the third infrastructure project of this kind in Abidjan, which is expected to lessen traffic and allow motorists to connect the southern and the western part of thcity without going through Plateau, the

Will peace and durable reconciliation prevail in Ivory Coast? Will the political stalemate, which has plagued the country for a decade, and which worsened after the 2010 presidential election, ever end? The recent events in Ivory Coast prove that the country is nowhere near peace and stability.