Vowing to deliver “generational” change, President Alassane Ouattara was sworn in Monday for a fourth term as leader of the Ivory Coast, after elections in which his two main opponents were excluded from the ballot.
Ouattara, 83, was re-elected with nearly 90 percent of the vote in the October 25 election, though turnout in the west African nation was a relatively low 50.1 percent.
“This term will be one of generational transmission; it will be, for me and our nation, an act of responsibility and political maturity,” he said
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