(CNN)Two towering figures of the American civil rights movement died Friday, a major loss for a nation still grappling with protests and demands for racial equality decades later.
John Robert Lewis died at age 80 after a battle with cancer. Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian died at age 95 of natural causes. They died a day before the birthday of the late Nelson Mandela -- another renown champion of racial equality.
Both men were the epitome of "good trouble" -- Lewis' favorite saying and approach to confronting injustices without violence. They worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the forefront of the historic struggle for racial justices in the 1960s.
At the height of the push for justice, their beatings at the protests galvanized support that led to key changes. After years of arrests, confrontations and unyielding demands for justice, they received the highest civilian honor from the nation's first Black President.
John Robert Lewis
John Lewis was more than an icon of the civil rights movement. He was also a beloved Georgia congressman, a political force and an ally for marginalized communities nationwide.
"The world has lost a legend; the civil rights movement has lost an icon, the city of Atlanta has lost one of its most fearless leaders, and the Congressional Black Caucus has lost our longest serving member," the Congressional Black Caucus said. " ... John Lewis was known as the conscience of our caucus."
Lewis, a Democrat who served as the US representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district for more than three decades, was considered a moral conscience of Congress because of his belief in a nonviolent fight for civil rights.
His passion for equal rights was backed by a long record of action that included dozens of arrests during protests against racial and social injustice.
A follower and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., he participated in lunch counter sit-ins, joined the Freedom Riders in challenging segregated buses and -- at the age of 23 -- was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington.
John Lewis is beaten by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.
"We do not want our freedom gradually; we want to be free now," he said at the time.
"Sometimes when I look back and think about it, how did we do what we did? How did we succeed? We didn't have a website. We didn't have a cellular telephone," Lewis has said of the civil rights movement.
At age 25, he also helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull.
Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 2011, after more than 50 years on the front lines of the civil rights movement, America's first Black President placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his neck.
Lewis has described attending President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration as an "out-of-body" experience.
When he announced that he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in December, he vowed to fight.
"I have been in some kind of fight -- for freedom, equality, basic human rights -- for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now," he said in a statement.
Cordy Tindell Vivian
C.T. Vivian was also a major force in the civil rights movement. He worked alongside King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the struggle for racial equality.
And like Lewis, he was also part of the Freedom Riders -- civil rights activists who rode through southern states to make sure bus terminals and other public facilities were not segregated.
His civil rights actions started decades ago with his first nonviolent protest in 1947 -- a lunch counter sit-in in Peoria, Illinois.
Vivian had a strong religious upbringing and he and other ministers founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The group helped organize sit-ins and civil rights marches.
Cordy Tindell "CT" Vivian talks to an officer during one of the Freedom Rides from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi in 1961.
Some of the marches ended in violence against him. He once led a group of people to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, despite defiance by a local sheriff who blocked the group.
"We will register to vote because as citizens of the United States we have the right to do it," he told the sheriff. The sheriff responded by beating Vivian until blood dripped off his chin in front of rolling cameras. The images helped galvanize wider support for change.
Vivian also created a college readiness program to help care for children kicked out of school for protesting racism.
The US Department of Education used his program as a guide to create Upward Bound, which was designed to improve high school and college graduation rates for students in underserved communities.
In the late 1970s, Vivian founded an anti-racism organization that focused on monitoring the Ku Klux Klan.
Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
Known for shaping the destiny of Cote divoire but gained the world respect and recognition when President Alassane Ouattara uncommonly, In late 2019, announced that he would not stand for a third term in office stating that “Throughout my career, I have always attached particular importance to honouring my commitments. Consequently, I have decided not to be a candidate in 2020,” Ouattara said Thursday. “It has been an honour to serve my country.”
The Ivorian president was speaking to the 352 parliamentarians gathered in Congress in the amphitheatre of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation in Yamoussoukro.
He continued “I would like to solemnly announce that I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020 and to transfer power to a younger generation,”. Which was posted on his Twitter account.
The announcement by the Ivoirian leader, who is held in high regard in many Western countries comes with no surprise because of President Alassane’s long campaign for good governance which is being celebrated as a beacon of hope for stable and prosperous Africa.
He fulfilled the democratic gesture, when he honorable handed the governing party's candidate to Amadou Gon Coulibaly for the October presidential election . A development well accepted by the party faithfuls .But death being so brutal changed the whole complexion. we sadly woke up with the news that ‘’Ivory Coast's prime minister and the governing party's candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France’’
His death would no doubt create uncertainty over the election in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower.
In a special tribute to the late prime minister, President Ouattara revealed "my youngest brother, my son" and his closest political ally for 30 years.
"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for his country," he added.
Now, the RHDP has to choose a replacement candidate.
"All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara," Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive secretary, told journalists on Thursday as he arrived for a meeting of the party's political council.
President Ouattara has the right to run again under a new constitution adopted in 2016.
RHDP executive secretary,Mr.Adama Bictago in an interview with the press said "All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara,"
Whatever happens, Africa calls on the world to join hands to ensure a continued stability being championed by its current leader.
He continued “I would like to solemnly announce that I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020 and to transfer power to a younger generation,”. Which was posted on his Twitter account.
The announcement by the Ivoirian leader, who is held in high regard in many Western countries comes with no surprise because of President Alassane’s long campaign for good governance which is being celebrated as a beacon of hope for stable and prosperous Africa.
He fulfilled the democratic gesture, when he honorable handed the governing party's candidate to Amadou Gon Coulibaly for the October presidential election . A development well accepted by the party faithfuls .But death being so brutal changed the whole complexion. we sadly woke up with the news that ‘’Ivory Coast's prime minister and the governing party's candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France’’
His death would no doubt create uncertainty over the election in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower.
In a special tribute to the late prime minister, President Ouattara revealed "my youngest brother, my son" and his closest political ally for 30 years.
"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for his country," he added.
Now, the RHDP has to choose a replacement candidate.
"All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara," Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive secretary, told journalists on Thursday as he arrived for a meeting of the party's political council.
President Ouattara has the right to run again under a new constitution adopted in 2016.
RHDP executive secretary,Mr.Adama Bictago in an interview with the press said "All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara,"
Whatever happens, Africa calls on the world to join hands to ensure a continued stability being championed by its current leader.
The founder of the Ivorian world Mr.Yahaya Alhassan has described the death of foremost politician, as an irreparable loss to the country.
“Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a man of many parts . A nice to meet man, untiring love for the down-trodden. His political support gestures knew no bounds. Mr.Alhassan said.
The Ivorian world remembers that, it was the astute leadership of President Alassane Ouattara with support of Amadou Gon Coulibaly that brought economic growth, stability and a renewed standing for Ivory Coast on the international stage.
He condoled with the Government and people of Cote divoire , particularly his family on the loss of such personality , whose immeasurable contributions to development and progress of his community and country remained paramount till the very end.
Mr. Yahaya Alhassan urged the good people of Korhogo, his family, friends and associates to take solace in the fact that Prime Minister Amadou touched lives, wrote his name in gold, and lived a life of accomplishments. He prayed that God will grant him eternal rest.
“Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a man of many parts . A nice to meet man, untiring love for the down-trodden. His political support gestures knew no bounds. Mr.Alhassan said.
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He condoled with the Government and people of Cote divoire , particularly his family on the loss of such personality , whose immeasurable contributions to development and progress of his community and country remained paramount till the very end.
Mr. Yahaya Alhassan urged the good people of Korhogo, his family, friends and associates to take solace in the fact that Prime Minister Amadou touched lives, wrote his name in gold, and lived a life of accomplishments. He prayed that God will grant him eternal rest.
Renowned musician Seydou Kone popularly known as Alpha Blondy has been praised by the humanity magazine international for his contribution for the fight against apartheid and promotion of peace in Africa.Speaking in an interview the chief executive officer for the Humanity Magazine ,Mr.Yahaya Alhassan said ‘’Alpha Blondy’s resistance songs towards the institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa, is being celebrated as a powerful weapon in creating the awareness towards the oppression and authoritarian political culture, which ensured that the country was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population, a special case study across institutions of higher learning for the power of music’’
Mr.Alhassan expressed his appreciation to the African’s legend for using his meaningful songs in promoting peace and stability across the continent which according him has positively impacted Africa .
(CNN)Two towering figures of the American civil rights movement died Friday, a major loss for a nation still grappling with protests and demands for racial equality decades later.
John Robert Lewis died at age 80 after a battle with cancer. Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian died at age 95 of natural causes. They died a day before the birthday of the late Nelson Mandela -- another renown champion of racial equality.
Both men were the epitome of "good trouble" -- Lewis' favorite saying and approach to confronting injustices without violence. They worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the forefront of the historic struggle for racial justices in the 1960s.
At the height of the push for justice, their beatings at the protests galvanized support that led to key changes. After years of arrests, confrontations and unyielding demands for justice, they received the highest civilian honor from the nation's first Black President.
John Robert Lewis
John Lewis was more than an icon of the civil rights movement. He was also a beloved Georgia congressman, a political force and an ally for marginalized communities nationwide.
"The world has lost a legend; the civil rights movement has lost an icon, the city of Atlanta has lost one of its most fearless leaders, and the Congressional Black Caucus has lost our longest serving member," the Congressional Black Caucus said. " ... John Lewis was known as the conscience of our caucus."
Lewis, a Democrat who served as the US representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district for more than three decades, was considered a moral conscience of Congress because of his belief in a nonviolent fight for civil rights.
His passion for equal rights was backed by a long record of action that included dozens of arrests during protests against racial and social injustice.
A follower and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., he participated in lunch counter sit-ins, joined the Freedom Riders in challenging segregated buses and -- at the age of 23 -- was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington.
John Lewis is beaten by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.
"We do not want our freedom gradually; we want to be free now," he said at the time.
"Sometimes when I look back and think about it, how did we do what we did? How did we succeed? We didn't have a website. We didn't have a cellular telephone," Lewis has said of the civil rights movement.
At age 25, he also helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull.
Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 2011, after more than 50 years on the front lines of the civil rights movement, America's first Black President placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his neck.
Lewis has described attending President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration as an "out-of-body" experience.
When he announced that he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in December, he vowed to fight.
"I have been in some kind of fight -- for freedom, equality, basic human rights -- for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now," he said in a statement.
Cordy Tindell Vivian
C.T. Vivian was also a major force in the civil rights movement. He worked alongside King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the struggle for racial equality.
And like Lewis, he was also part of the Freedom Riders -- civil rights activists who rode through southern states to make sure bus terminals and other public facilities were not segregated.
His civil rights actions started decades ago with his first nonviolent protest in 1947 -- a lunch counter sit-in in Peoria, Illinois.
Vivian had a strong religious upbringing and he and other ministers founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The group helped organize sit-ins and civil rights marches.
Cordy Tindell "CT" Vivian talks to an officer during one of the Freedom Rides from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi in 1961.
Some of the marches ended in violence against him. He once led a group of people to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, despite defiance by a local sheriff who blocked the group.
"We will register to vote because as citizens of the United States we have the right to do it," he told the sheriff. The sheriff responded by beating Vivian until blood dripped off his chin in front of rolling cameras. The images helped galvanize wider support for change.
Vivian also created a college readiness program to help care for children kicked out of school for protesting racism.
The US Department of Education used his program as a guide to create Upward Bound, which was designed to improve high school and college graduation rates for students in underserved communities.
In the late 1970s, Vivian founded an anti-racism organization that focused on monitoring the Ku Klux Klan.
Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
Known for shaping the destiny of Cote divoire but gained the world respect and recognition when President Alassane Ouattara uncommonly, In late 2019, announced that he would not stand for a third term in office stating that “Throughout my career, I have always attached particular importance to honouring my commitments. Consequently, I have decided not to be a candidate in 2020,” Ouattara said Thursday. “It has been an honour to serve my country.”
The Ivorian president was speaking to the 352 parliamentarians gathered in Congress in the amphitheatre of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation in Yamoussoukro.
He continued “I would like to solemnly announce that I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020 and to transfer power to a younger generation,”. Which was posted on his Twitter account.
The announcement by the Ivoirian leader, who is held in high regard in many Western countries comes with no surprise because of President Alassane’s long campaign for good governance which is being celebrated as a beacon of hope for stable and prosperous Africa.
He fulfilled the democratic gesture, when he honorable handed the governing party's candidate to Amadou Gon Coulibaly for the October presidential election . A development well accepted by the party faithfuls .But death being so brutal changed the whole complexion. we sadly woke up with the news that ‘’Ivory Coast's prime minister and the governing party's candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France’’
His death would no doubt create uncertainty over the election in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower.
In a special tribute to the late prime minister, President Ouattara revealed "my youngest brother, my son" and his closest political ally for 30 years.
"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for his country," he added.
Now, the RHDP has to choose a replacement candidate.
"All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara," Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive secretary, told journalists on Thursday as he arrived for a meeting of the party's political council.
President Ouattara has the right to run again under a new constitution adopted in 2016.
RHDP executive secretary,Mr.Adama Bictago in an interview with the press said "All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara,"
Whatever happens, Africa calls on the world to join hands to ensure a continued stability being championed by its current leader.
He continued “I would like to solemnly announce that I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020 and to transfer power to a younger generation,”. Which was posted on his Twitter account.
The announcement by the Ivoirian leader, who is held in high regard in many Western countries comes with no surprise because of President Alassane’s long campaign for good governance which is being celebrated as a beacon of hope for stable and prosperous Africa.
He fulfilled the democratic gesture, when he honorable handed the governing party's candidate to Amadou Gon Coulibaly for the October presidential election . A development well accepted by the party faithfuls .But death being so brutal changed the whole complexion. we sadly woke up with the news that ‘’Ivory Coast's prime minister and the governing party's candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France’’
His death would no doubt create uncertainty over the election in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower.
In a special tribute to the late prime minister, President Ouattara revealed "my youngest brother, my son" and his closest political ally for 30 years.
"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for his country," he added.
Now, the RHDP has to choose a replacement candidate.
"All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara," Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive secretary, told journalists on Thursday as he arrived for a meeting of the party's political council.
President Ouattara has the right to run again under a new constitution adopted in 2016.
RHDP executive secretary,Mr.Adama Bictago in an interview with the press said "All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara,"
Whatever happens, Africa calls on the world to join hands to ensure a continued stability being championed by its current leader.
The founder of the Ivorian world Mr.Yahaya Alhassan has described the death of foremost politician, as an irreparable loss to the country.
“Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a man of many parts . A nice to meet man, untiring love for the down-trodden. His political support gestures knew no bounds. Mr.Alhassan said.
The Ivorian world remembers that, it was the astute leadership of President Alassane Ouattara with support of Amadou Gon Coulibaly that brought economic growth, stability and a renewed standing for Ivory Coast on the international stage.
He condoled with the Government and people of Cote divoire , particularly his family on the loss of such personality , whose immeasurable contributions to development and progress of his community and country remained paramount till the very end.
Mr. Yahaya Alhassan urged the good people of Korhogo, his family, friends and associates to take solace in the fact that Prime Minister Amadou touched lives, wrote his name in gold, and lived a life of accomplishments. He prayed that God will grant him eternal rest.
“Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a man of many parts . A nice to meet man, untiring love for the down-trodden. His political support gestures knew no bounds. Mr.Alhassan said.
|
He condoled with the Government and people of Cote divoire , particularly his family on the loss of such personality , whose immeasurable contributions to development and progress of his community and country remained paramount till the very end.
Mr. Yahaya Alhassan urged the good people of Korhogo, his family, friends and associates to take solace in the fact that Prime Minister Amadou touched lives, wrote his name in gold, and lived a life of accomplishments. He prayed that God will grant him eternal rest.
Renowned musician Seydou Kone popularly known as Alpha Blondy has been praised by the humanity magazine international for his contribution for the fight against apartheid and promotion of peace in Africa.Speaking in an interview the chief executive officer for the Humanity Magazine ,Mr.Yahaya Alhassan said ‘’Alpha Blondy’s resistance songs towards the institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa, is being celebrated as a powerful weapon in creating the awareness towards the oppression and authoritarian political culture, which ensured that the country was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population, a special case study across institutions of higher learning for the power of music’’
Mr.Alhassan expressed his appreciation to the African’s legend for using his meaningful songs in promoting peace and stability across the continent which according him has positively impacted Africa .
(CNN)Two towering figures of the American civil rights movement died Friday, a major loss for a nation still grappling with protests and demands for racial equality decades later.
John Robert Lewis died at age 80 after a battle with cancer. Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian died at age 95 of natural causes. They died a day before the birthday of the late Nelson Mandela -- another renown champion of racial equality.
Both men were the epitome of "good trouble" -- Lewis' favorite saying and approach to confronting injustices without violence. They worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the forefront of the historic struggle for racial justices in the 1960s.
At the height of the push for justice, their beatings at the protests galvanized support that led to key changes. After years of arrests, confrontations and unyielding demands for justice, they received the highest civilian honor from the nation's first Black President.
John Robert Lewis
John Lewis was more than an icon of the civil rights movement. He was also a beloved Georgia congressman, a political force and an ally for marginalized communities nationwide.
"The world has lost a legend; the civil rights movement has lost an icon, the city of Atlanta has lost one of its most fearless leaders, and the Congressional Black Caucus has lost our longest serving member," the Congressional Black Caucus said. " ... John Lewis was known as the conscience of our caucus."
Lewis, a Democrat who served as the US representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district for more than three decades, was considered a moral conscience of Congress because of his belief in a nonviolent fight for civil rights.
His passion for equal rights was backed by a long record of action that included dozens of arrests during protests against racial and social injustice.
A follower and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., he participated in lunch counter sit-ins, joined the Freedom Riders in challenging segregated buses and -- at the age of 23 -- was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington.
John Lewis is beaten by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.
"We do not want our freedom gradually; we want to be free now," he said at the time.
"Sometimes when I look back and think about it, how did we do what we did? How did we succeed? We didn't have a website. We didn't have a cellular telephone," Lewis has said of the civil rights movement.
At age 25, he also helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull.
Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 2011, after more than 50 years on the front lines of the civil rights movement, America's first Black President placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his neck.
Lewis has described attending President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration as an "out-of-body" experience.
When he announced that he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in December, he vowed to fight.
"I have been in some kind of fight -- for freedom, equality, basic human rights -- for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now," he said in a statement.
Cordy Tindell Vivian
C.T. Vivian was also a major force in the civil rights movement. He worked alongside King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the struggle for racial equality.
And like Lewis, he was also part of the Freedom Riders -- civil rights activists who rode through southern states to make sure bus terminals and other public facilities were not segregated.
His civil rights actions started decades ago with his first nonviolent protest in 1947 -- a lunch counter sit-in in Peoria, Illinois.
Vivian had a strong religious upbringing and he and other ministers founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The group helped organize sit-ins and civil rights marches.
Cordy Tindell "CT" Vivian talks to an officer during one of the Freedom Rides from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi in 1961.
Some of the marches ended in violence against him. He once led a group of people to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, despite defiance by a local sheriff who blocked the group.
"We will register to vote because as citizens of the United States we have the right to do it," he told the sheriff. The sheriff responded by beating Vivian until blood dripped off his chin in front of rolling cameras. The images helped galvanize wider support for change.
Vivian also created a college readiness program to help care for children kicked out of school for protesting racism.
The US Department of Education used his program as a guide to create Upward Bound, which was designed to improve high school and college graduation rates for students in underserved communities.
In the late 1970s, Vivian founded an anti-racism organization that focused on monitoring the Ku Klux Klan.
Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
Known for shaping the destiny of Cote divoire but gained the world respect and recognition when President Alassane Ouattara uncommonly, In late 2019, announced that he would not stand for a third term in office stating that “Throughout my career, I have always attached particular importance to honouring my commitments. Consequently, I have decided not to be a candidate in 2020,” Ouattara said Thursday. “It has been an honour to serve my country.”
The Ivorian president was speaking to the 352 parliamentarians gathered in Congress in the amphitheatre of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation in Yamoussoukro.
He continued “I would like to solemnly announce that I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020 and to transfer power to a younger generation,”. Which was posted on his Twitter account.
The announcement by the Ivoirian leader, who is held in high regard in many Western countries comes with no surprise because of President Alassane’s long campaign for good governance which is being celebrated as a beacon of hope for stable and prosperous Africa.
He fulfilled the democratic gesture, when he honorable handed the governing party's candidate to Amadou Gon Coulibaly for the October presidential election . A development well accepted by the party faithfuls .But death being so brutal changed the whole complexion. we sadly woke up with the news that ‘’Ivory Coast's prime minister and the governing party's candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France’’
His death would no doubt create uncertainty over the election in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower.
In a special tribute to the late prime minister, President Ouattara revealed "my youngest brother, my son" and his closest political ally for 30 years.
"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for his country," he added.
Now, the RHDP has to choose a replacement candidate.
"All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara," Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive secretary, told journalists on Thursday as he arrived for a meeting of the party's political council.
President Ouattara has the right to run again under a new constitution adopted in 2016.
RHDP executive secretary,Mr.Adama Bictago in an interview with the press said "All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara,"
Whatever happens, Africa calls on the world to join hands to ensure a continued stability being championed by its current leader.
He continued “I would like to solemnly announce that I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020 and to transfer power to a younger generation,”. Which was posted on his Twitter account.
The announcement by the Ivoirian leader, who is held in high regard in many Western countries comes with no surprise because of President Alassane’s long campaign for good governance which is being celebrated as a beacon of hope for stable and prosperous Africa.
He fulfilled the democratic gesture, when he honorable handed the governing party's candidate to Amadou Gon Coulibaly for the October presidential election . A development well accepted by the party faithfuls .But death being so brutal changed the whole complexion. we sadly woke up with the news that ‘’Ivory Coast's prime minister and the governing party's candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France’’
His death would no doubt create uncertainty over the election in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower.
In a special tribute to the late prime minister, President Ouattara revealed "my youngest brother, my son" and his closest political ally for 30 years.
"I salute the memory of a statesman of great loyalty, devotion and love for his country," he added.
Now, the RHDP has to choose a replacement candidate.
"All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara," Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive secretary, told journalists on Thursday as he arrived for a meeting of the party's political council.
President Ouattara has the right to run again under a new constitution adopted in 2016.
RHDP executive secretary,Mr.Adama Bictago in an interview with the press said "All options are on the table, including a new candidacy for President Ouattara,"
Whatever happens, Africa calls on the world to join hands to ensure a continued stability being championed by its current leader.
The founder of the Ivorian world Mr.Yahaya Alhassan has described the death of foremost politician, as an irreparable loss to the country.
“Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a man of many parts . A nice to meet man, untiring love for the down-trodden. His political support gestures knew no bounds. Mr.Alhassan said.
The Ivorian world remembers that, it was the astute leadership of President Alassane Ouattara with support of Amadou Gon Coulibaly that brought economic growth, stability and a renewed standing for Ivory Coast on the international stage.
He condoled with the Government and people of Cote divoire , particularly his family on the loss of such personality , whose immeasurable contributions to development and progress of his community and country remained paramount till the very end.
Mr. Yahaya Alhassan urged the good people of Korhogo, his family, friends and associates to take solace in the fact that Prime Minister Amadou touched lives, wrote his name in gold, and lived a life of accomplishments. He prayed that God will grant him eternal rest.
“Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was a man of many parts . A nice to meet man, untiring love for the down-trodden. His political support gestures knew no bounds. Mr.Alhassan said.
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He condoled with the Government and people of Cote divoire , particularly his family on the loss of such personality , whose immeasurable contributions to development and progress of his community and country remained paramount till the very end.
Mr. Yahaya Alhassan urged the good people of Korhogo, his family, friends and associates to take solace in the fact that Prime Minister Amadou touched lives, wrote his name in gold, and lived a life of accomplishments. He prayed that God will grant him eternal rest.
Renowned musician Seydou Kone popularly known as Alpha Blondy has been praised by the humanity magazine international for his contribution for the fight against apartheid and promotion of peace in Africa.Speaking in an interview the chief executive officer for the Humanity Magazine ,Mr.Yahaya Alhassan said ‘’Alpha Blondy’s resistance songs towards the institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa, is being celebrated as a powerful weapon in creating the awareness towards the oppression and authoritarian political culture, which ensured that the country was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population, a special case study across institutions of higher learning for the power of music’’
Mr.Alhassan expressed his appreciation to the African’s legend for using his meaningful songs in promoting peace and stability across the continent which according him has positively impacted Africa .
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