Cote d'Ivoire Presidential Election - What's At Stake for Stability?

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On Sunday, 25 October, Ivorians will go to the polls to elect their president. In 2010, the elections had plunged Côte d'Ivoire into an armed conflict resulting in 3 000 deaths.

It is unlikely that this year's poll will trigger such large-scale violence, but that won't be enough to turn the process into a democratic success, or to guarantee future stability.

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