Ouattara came to power after a bloody five-month crisis in 2010-11 and is now in his second term, which ends in 2020. “The new constitution authorises me to do two terms from 2020. I will only make my final decision at that point, on the basis of the situation in Ivory Coast. The overwhelming priorities are stability and peace,” Ouattara said last week in an interview with magazine Jeune Afrique. EDS is a coalition that gathers civil society groups as well as the Ivorian People’s Party (FPI), the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo.

Source: Punch June 04, 2018 10:52 UTC