Ivory Coast's prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was buried in a private ceremony on Friday at the end of week-long national mourning triggered by a death that stunned the West African country.
Amadou Gon Coulibaly, then secretary general of the presidency, speaks at the presidential palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast Friday, April 13, 2012.
He was buried in the family tomb in his home town of Korhogo, the main city in the country’s north, a source close to his family said. Nicknamed the “Lion of Korhogo,” he was highly popular in the city of his birth, where he was also an MP and mayor for a long time.“This is the funeral of a chief. We turned out in large numbers today. We had to be here, after everything that this man did for his country.
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