Post-election victims ‘forgotten’ in Abidjan

Last week, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara met with two of his predecessors as part of a controversial reconciliation effort critics say is, in fact, standing in the way of justice.

President Ouattara hosted Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in the presidential palace in Abidjan on July 14, as part of renewed efforts at salvaging the protracted reconciliation process that has been held back by divisive, ethno-geopolitical differences stemming back two decades. The meeting came exactly one year since the first between President Ouattara and Mr Gbagbo, after the later was acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges related to the 2010 post-election violence.