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Ivory Coast On The Potomac? Democracy At Risk In U.S. Election

Members of far-right Proud Boys have warned of violence if Trump loses the election
Members of far-right Proud Boys have warned of violence if Trump loses the election Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/ZUMA

-Analysis- PARIS — It was the kind of headline that risks fading into your news feed as if it were barely news: “Ivory Coast: As Presidential Election Approaches, International Criminal Court Worries About Violence,” Jeune Afrique magazine announced last week. And so it followed, as votes were cast this past weekend in President Alassane Ouattara’s […]

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Ehud Barack And Israel’s Ivory Coast Connection

Barak when he was still in government
Barak when he was still in government Monika Flueckiger/Xinhua/ZUMA

TEL AVIV — When Stanley Fischer left his senior post at the International Monetary Fund in 2001, he made sure to mention of one of his closest IMF friends and colleagues during his farewell speech. That friend is Alassane Ouattara, who served as Ivory Coast’s prime minister in the early 1990s before moving on to […]

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