The former president of Ivory Coast, Konan Bedie, has died

 The former president of Ivory Coast, Konan Bedie, has died The former president of the Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bedie died at the age of 89...

 The former president of Ivory Coast, Konan Bedie, has died

The former president of the Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bedie died at the age of 89, as his party announced last Tuesday night.

Henri Kona Bedie was born on May 5, 1934, who ruled Ivory Coast from December 7, 1993 to December 24, 1999, in Daoukro, Abidjan.

Bedie succeeded the man who took power from the colonialist Felix Houphouet-Boigny, in 1993.

During his presidency, Bedie implemented his nationalistic policy, introducing a system of discrimination against immigrants whose parents are not from the Ivorian country, which had a negative impact on many workers. work in the cocoa plantations.

Many commentators have criticized this advantage, which they say is against the efforts of Houphouet-Boigny to bring unity in the country, which experts say is one of the reasons for the overthrow of his government, and it has an impact on the civil war of the year 2000.

The veteran politician, who died at the Polyclinique Internationale Sainte Anne-Marie hospital, did not give up on running for the next presidential election until he returned to his home.