Cote d’Ivoire: violence in Korhogo
- July 10, 2018
- - 4:32 pm
Summary: Political stress is rising quickly despite there being more than two years until Cote d’Ivoire’s crucial general elections in 2020. Wanting to avoid a collapse of the state’s political integrity will compel President Alassane Ouattara and his ruling Rally of the Republicans party to inflate political patronage and as a result increase pressure on budgetary spending and Ivoirian Eurobond yields. Analysis An attack at a political rally held on July 7 in the northern Ivoirian city of Korhogo resulted in the death of one activist member of the Guillaume Soro-aligned Rassemblement pour la Côte d’Ivoire (RACI) movement. The perpetrators …
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