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The politics of Ivory Coast takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Ivory Coast is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President and the Government.
Ivory Coast, which is preparing for an election in 2025, has had three prime ministers since 2020. Achi succeeded Hamed Bakayoko , who died of cancer in March 2021. Bakayoko’s predecessor had ...
Human rights are protected in the 2016 Ivory Coast Constitution's Title 1: Rights, Freedoms and Duties. [3] Article 3 protects the right to life. Article 4 protects the right against discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, race, opinions, social status or sex. Article 5 prohibits slavery, torture, forced labor, genital mutilation and human ...
Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Ivory Coast. April 6 – Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty of complicity in the murder of the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. Compaoré has been in exile in Ivory Coast ever since resigning to the presidency following the ...
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) has 225 members, elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies. Côte d'Ivoire is a one party dominant ...
26 April 1949 (age 75) Tafiré, French West Africa. (now Ivory Coast) Political party. Independent. Children. 5. Tiémoko Meyliet Koné (born 26 April 1949) is an Ivorian economist and politician. He has served as Vice-President of Ivory Coast since April 2022.
Throughout the Cold War, Ivory Coast's foreign policywas generally favorable toward the West. In particular, Félix Houphouët-Boignykept relations with France that was among the closest between any African country and a former colonial power. The country became a member of the United Nations at independence in 1960 and participates in most of ...
Ivory Coast–Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries. Ivory Coast has an embassy in Madrid, [1] and honorary consulates in Barcelona, Bilbao, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Seville, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid, Zaragoza and La Coruña. [2] Spain has an embassy in Abidjan.