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Cote d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara and Israeli President Shimon Peres shaking hands, Jerusalem, 17 June 2012 (photo: Roee Ruttenberg)
Cote d’Ivoire leader visits Israel in shadow of deportations
Cote d’Ivoire’s president, Alassane Ouattara arrived in Israel late on Saturday evening, his first official visit to the country as leader of the West African nation. Ouattara’s visit comes exactly 50 years after independent Cote d’Ivoire’s first president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, visited the country. But it also comes just as Israel launches a major crackdown on African…
By Roee Ruttenberg June 17, 2012
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