On 12 August, clusters of Ivorian flags were flying over the Ébrié lagoon. Hundreds of guests – politicians, businessmen, traditional leaders – converged on Le Plateau, the Abidjan district where the high-rise glass buildings of ministries and institutional headquarters stand alongside luxury hotels. A wide road had been closed to traffic and vast white tents erected on either side, thronged with Ivorian and foreign journalists.
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