Cote d’Ivoire: a cabinet reshuffle and deeper-level ethnopolitical divides
- July 5, 2018
- - 2:25 pm
Summary: The economic outlook for Cote d’Ivoire is positive in the near term as above-average rains are watering the significant cocoa crop due for harvest from October. The political outlook is on the other hand trending negative as a result of the effective collapse of the RHDP political alliance and President Alassane Ouattara’s effecting a cabinet resignation that reveals deeper-level ethnopolitical divides. President Alassane Ouattara effected July 4 the resignation of his cabinet, reappointing Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly but left the remaining ministerial portfolios so far vacant. The development aims to assert the primacy of Ouattara’s ruling Rally of …
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