Since Mr Ouattara took over, the Ivory Coast has done well. The economy is expected to grow in 2014 by more than 8% for the third year in a row. The African Development Bank is to reopen its headquarters in Abidjan after an 11-year exile in Tunisia. Calling for dialogue with the opposition, Mr Ouattara has freed hundreds of Mr Gbagbo’s partisans who had been accused of post-election violence three years ago. Political tension seems to have cooled.
But under the surface they still bubble. Hardliners in the opposition give the government headaches, most recently by boycotting a national census. Mr Ouattara has failed to reform the armed forces and police. Human-rights campaigners say that too few people, including supporters of Mr Ouattara, have been prosecuted for crimes of violence committed during the post-election mayhem…
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