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Bedie fails to rein in presidential upstarts

Despite PDCI party chief Henri Konan Bedie’s efforts to make them change their minds, four key figures in the party founded by Felix Houphouet Boigny are determined to run in Ivory Coast’s presidential elections in October. [...] (316 words)

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