Adds authorities remark
Adds authorities remark
ABIDJAN, Dec 27 (Reuters) – A gaggle of Ivory Coast opposition events accused state authorities on Friday of making an attempt to intimidate them earlier than subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, denouncing a brand new arrest warrant for presidential candidate Guillaume Soro.
A public prosecutor has stated Soro, a former insurgent chief in Ivory Coast, may face life in jail for allegedly plotting a coup. Though his whereabouts are unclear, Soro is believed to be in Europe, and greater than 15 folks near him have been arrested as a part of an investigation.
“These actions are makes an attempt to silence all criticism by the opposition of the federal government once we must be discussing how the 2020 election is being organised,” politician Gnonzie Ouattara from the Coalition for Reconciliation, Democracy and Peace (CRDP), an alliance of 21 opposition events together with Soro’s, instructed a information convention.
“Guillaume Soro is just not responsible of something,” he stated.
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