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A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Grand-Bassam is home to a huge beach on the Atlantic Ocean that's highly popular with tourists – expats and Ivorians alike. On that fateful day in 2016, three assailants armed with Kalashnikovs opened fire on the beach, then on hotels along the coast. The horror went on for 45 minutes before the gunmen were finally shot dead by Ivorian special forces.
At 61, the third man is also a political veteran. But Peter Obi is running as a reformist insurgent and hopes to tap into the energy of the 2020 anti-corruption End SARS protest movement. Can he break the ethnic calculus that goes into electioneering in Nigeria? What do Obi and his rivals stand for?
At the same moment, inside the Olympic stadium, the equestrian dressage was taking place as planned – it was only the following day that the Games were suspended for 24 hours in tribute to the victims.
The trial over the November 2015 terrorist attacks is the largest in French history to date, involving over a million pages of evidence, some 2,500 plaintiffs, more than 300 lawyers and 20 defendants. We spoke to the partner of a victim, a lawyer and a court reporter who have all been following the trial for the past 10 months.
In the interview, Maiga insisted Bamako had "never requested" France to withdraw its anti-jihadist Barkhane operations from Mali, but that it was a decision that France had taken on its own. "On the grounds that Mali is preparing to discuss with the terrorists," he said, pointing to a June 3, 2021, statement in which France announced it was suspending its joint military operations with Malian forces. At the time, France said it was awaiting guarantees that the transitional government would hand over the power to civilian rule in the February, 2022, elections. The junta has since postponed the elections, however.