Bédié's flashpoint

Crisis has come in the struggle by President Henri Konan Bédié to exclude from next year's presidential election the recently retired Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Alassane Dramane Ouattara. Bédié claims Ouattara was born in what is now Burkina Faso and is ineligible. On 12 November, key leaders and party activists of ADO's Rassemblement des Républicains were gaoled on riot charges after a dubious trial.

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Henri Konan Bédié, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, Burkina Faso, Henriette Diabaté, Yaya Fofana, Epiphane Zoro Ballo, Abdou Touré, Laurent Gbagbo, James Rubin, United States, French, Charles Josselin, Daniel Kablan Duncan, Senegalese, Abdou Diouf, Mali, Alpha Oumar Konaré, Blaise Compaoré, Michel Camdessus, N'Goran Niamien, Jacques Vergès, Lionel Jospin, Laurent Fabius, Michel Rocard, Rassemblement des Républicains, Front Patriotique Ivorien, Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire, Parti Socialiste, Assemblée Nationale

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