Apathy and unease ahead of Ivory Coast’s polls after protests in Abidjan

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Apathy and unease ahead of Ivory Coast’s polls after protests in Abidjan  The recent wave of arrests in Ivorz Coast is causing jitters in some neighbourhood of the capitla Abidjan  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/10/23/apathy-and-unease-ahead-of-ivory-coasts-polls-after-protests-in-abidjan  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00The recent wave of arrest in Ivory Coast is causing jitters in some

00:06neighborhoods of the capital, Abidjan. In this Abidjan block house neighborhood

00:11where hundreds of protesters were arrested and several wounded during

00:15protests earlier this month, victims are still shaken by the harrowing experience.

00:20They took me, they started to beat me, they put me in their car, they said it's us who throw

00:29stones. It's us who do bad things. It's us. What do we do? I didn't do anything. I'm

00:36from the village. A young man from the village, from block house. In a barbershop

00:41in the neighborhood, Pierre Kwame said the entire neighborhood was affected by

00:45octobus, violence, with the tear gas entering several homes and police beating

00:50down his relatives' doors in search of protesters. Given the situation in the

00:54country, things haven't been moving too much. Things have become a bit slow and

00:58when things get slow, everything gets expensive again. So we aren't doing too

01:03well. But God is there for everyone. So we go home with the little we earn.

01:08Elections in Ivory Coast have often been fraught with the tension and violence, but

01:13despite octobus protests, this year has been relatively calm.

01:17Participating in elections that end with violence and deaths is not the democracy that the population

01:24wants. And so, increasingly, there is a form of disaffection. And we've seen this, for

01:29example, in the registration of voter registration cards. To date, the rates are very low. And

01:35so, ultimately, we are going to find ourselves with an election that, if it takes place peacefully,

01:40will have the turnout rate as its main issue. I have recourse so intense violence, following

01:47the 2010 election, when Loro Bakbo refused to concede defeat. About 3,000 people were killed

01:52in the unrest.

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