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Vol 66 No 3

Published 7th February 2025


Benin

Economic hits before and after votes

After the youth revolution in Dakar last year, an octogenarian may be running in the Ivorian elections

With voting nine months away, the campaigning and political tractations ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential elections are under way. The outcome will reverberate across the region. President Alassane Dramane Ouattara embodies the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) establishment in its confrontation with the Sahelian junta leaders.

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