14 January – Authorities say they have rescued 137 children from
Benin,
Ghana,
Niger,
Nigeria, and
Togo, aged 6 to 17, who were the victims of traffickers and groomed to work on cocoa plantations or in prostitution.[4]
August 12 - Three people were killed in
Daoukro in clashes between supporters of
Alassane Ouattara and
Henri Konan Bedie. The government announced a ban on protests late in the day.[13]
August 13 - A protester in
Bonoua died during clashes with security forces, where a police station was also ransacked.[13]
September 13 –
2020 Ivorian presidential election: Former president
Henri Konan Bedie is nominated for president by the
PDCI-RDA and former prime minister
Guillaume Soro is nominated by the
GPS. Both are living in exile and their eligibility is questioned. President Alassane Ouattara announced his candidacy in July, despite a Constitutional prohibition on a third term.[15]
October
17 October - The home of opposition presidential candidate Pascal Affi N’Guessan was burned down in
Bongouanou. Offices of the
Ivorian Popular Front in
Abidjan were also attacked.[16]
December 14 – President Alassane Ouattara takes the oath of office for a controversial third term, after winning more than 94% of the October 31 vote, largely boycotted by the opposition.[19]
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Bloomberg News. Archived from
the original on April 30, 2020. Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Human Rights and Peoples Court, a week after the tribunal ordered the West African nation to suspend an arrest warrant against presidential hopeful Guillaume Soro, who on Tuesday was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
^N'Gotta, Toussaint (October 18, 2020).
"Ivorian opposition presidential candidate's home burned down".
The Associated Press. Assailants burned down the home of a leading opposition presidential candidate in eastern Ivory Coast while one of his party's offices came under attack elsewhere, witnesses said Sunday amid rising tensions two weeks before the election. A residence belonging to Pascal Affi N'Guessan was set ablaze in his hometown of Bongouanou amid clashes in the area Saturday. Meanwhile, an office belonging to his opposition Ivorian Popular Front party were attacked in the commercial capital of Abidjan.
