{"id":644084,"date":"2019-06-23T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"463\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/09103414-696x463.jpg\"   alt=\"Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9\" title=\"Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9\"\/><\/div><p>The Ivorian government on Saturday c"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:29:05","slug":"ivorian-government-condemns-remarks-against-foreigners-by-ex-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/23\/ivorian-government-condemns-remarks-against-foreigners-by-ex-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivorian government condemns remarks against foreigners by Ex-President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/09103414-696x463.jpg\"   alt=\"Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9\" title=\"Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Ivorian government on Saturday condemned a remark considered as extreme by its former President, calling for hostility towards foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The remark was purportedly made by former President Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement which includes a video of B\u00e9di\u00e9\u2018s remark to the party\u2019s website, the government said Ivorians will not accept such remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorian government said it considers that \u201cthese statements are likely to jeopardize peace and social cohesion, the country\u2019s national unity and stability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9 also talked about a massive arrival of foreigners into C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire who are given official documentations.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused his former ally Allassane Ouattara of planning to \u201cdistort the 2020 elections\u201d, referring to the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The former president also incriminates \u2018\u2018armed foreigners\u2019\u2018 in this West African nation.<\/p>\n<p>Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9\u2018s statement comes on a back of inter-communal violence, in a country where a significant part of the population are immigrants.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ivorian government on Saturday condemned a remark considered as extreme by its former President, calling for hostility towards foreigners. The remark was purportedly made by former President Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9 on Wednesday. In a statement which includes a video of B\u00e9di\u00e9\u2018s remark to the party\u2019s website, the government said Ivorians will not accept such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[246,249,248,245,244,247],"class_list":["post-644084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-condemns","tag-expresident","tag-foreigners","tag-government","tag-ivorian","tag-remarks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ivorian government condemns remarks against foreigners by Ex-President - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/23\/ivorian-government-condemns-remarks-against-foreigners-by-ex-president\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ivorian government condemns remarks against foreigners by Ex-President - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Ivorian government on Saturday condemned a remark considered as extreme by its former President, calling for hostility towards foreigners. 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