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Repression shrouds Alassane Ouattara’s election procession

The president’s strong economic record has been tarnished by corruption claims and a determination to quash dissent from any quarter

President Alassane Ouattara looks set to cruise to a fourth term at polls on 25 October with challengers weak or banned and his ruling party flush with cash and armed with suppressive tools. Instead of the election result, the outcome on Ivorian minds is what kind of country Ouattara will leave behind when he finally leaves office at the end of the decade given the apparatus of repression built during his rule.

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