Abidjan, Ivory Coast – Three years ago, Ivory Coast was in the grip of a civil war that claimed 3,000 lives and left more than 300,000 homeless, according to the United Nations.
The world body now says the country is recovering fast from the conflict: Huge infrastructure projects in the transport, communications, water and energy sectors are under way and are hoped to improve living conditions. But fears are growing that the reconstruction efforts could turn futile without true reconciliation between former warring parties.
“The world is saluting Ivory Coast’s post-war reconstruction without pausing for a minute to think that all that is being done is on a sandy foundation, and that the slightest outbreak of a new crisis could tear down recent achievements,” says Sebastien Dano Djedje, spokesman for the main opposition party FPI…
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