
COTE D’IVOIRE: Cabinet reshuffle amid looming post-election dispute
On 8 March, President Alassane Ouattara announced an cabinet reshuffle, necessitated by Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko’s apparently rapidly deteriorating state of health. As Bakayoko’s chief internal rival, Ouattara’s chief of staff Patrick Achi, becomes prime minister ad interim, this may tilt the balance in the party-internal race for Ouattara’s succession permanently in his favor.… Read the rest