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Vol 62 No 6

Published 18th March 2021


Many shoes to fill

The death of the prime minister leaves the race to be Ouattara's political successor wide open

Four prominent onlookers, dressed in black, oversaw the arrival on 14 March of the remains of Hamed Bakayoko, the former Ivorian Prime Minister and Defence Minister seen by many as a president-in-waiting and whose death from cancer has upended Ivorian politics.

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