A man walks past an election campaign poster of Hamed Bakayoko, Defence Minister and candidate running for the municipal election, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - After more than a decade as allies, two of Ivory Coast's largest political parties face off in local elections on Saturday after an acrimonious divorce that is making Ivorians nervous ahead of a presidential poll in 2020.
The alliance struck in 2005 between President Alassane Ouattara's RDR and former President Henri Konan Bedie's PDCI was meant to dominate for generations and help heal the political rifts that led to civil war three years earlier.
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