Cote d'Ivoire: Serious Turmoil Linked To Financial Demands

Street scene in Bouake, Ivory Coast (photo of illustration).

A mutiny that shook all the major cities of the country last week, violent and murderous clashes that opposed ex-rebels with the police on Tuesday 23 May, Cote d'Ivoire is currently going through a serious A zone of turbulence linked to repeated financial demands. And we do not know how far it will go.

Every week is enough for his crisis and if the Cassandra of Cote d'Ivoire predicted that the capitulation in the open campaign of the government against a handful of military augural of bad tomorrows, it is as of last Tuesday, the very day of the payment of the mutineers , That the demobilized demanded in their turn what they claim to be a due. Some 18 million CFA francs for about 6,000 of them in past fighting.

To reach this claim would be as much money in the coffers of the State, it would also be a further test for the government whose past procrastination has weakened its authority.

Social appointments are not lacking and we already know that the next crucial deadline concerns officials. Officials who also in a more peaceful but determined manner demanded 249 billion CFA francs of wage arrears.

It is no longer a marathon but an obstacle course in which the Ouattara team has already stumbled once and continues to take blows. A race where spectators wonder: until when will the government be able to cash in and the state disburse?