Ivory Coast's former president Henri Konan Bedie was laid to rest Saturday in his native village 10 months after his death.
Ivory Coast 's former president Henri Konan Bedie was laid to rest Saturday in his native village 10 months after his death.
Delegations representing ethnic groups from all over the country travelled to the eastern village of Pepressou to pay last respects to Bedie, who was commonly known by his initials HKB. While still president of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast, the country’s oldest party, Bedie passed away on August 1, 2023.
“Despite his age and his busy schedule he would visit us,” said Komenan Attou, a farmer in the village, who praised the “man of peace who supported the population”.“He was our father, he did so much for us. I’m at a loss for words,” she said. The construction of the building, now abandoned and overgrown with weeds, began in 1996 but was interrupted by the coup in 1999.
A driver hit and killed a female pedestrian along Awka-Onitsha Expressway in Anambra on Friday night, according to the state Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps . Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, Commander of the FRSC in Anambra, who told newsmen on Saturday in Awka, said that the driver fled the scene after the incident. Irelewuyi…
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