Ivory Coast
All eyes on Hamed Bakayoko's widow as she manages his estate

Yolande Tanoh-Bakayoko, the widow of the late Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko.
Yolande Tanoh-Bakayoko, the widow of the late Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko. © Sia Kambou/AFP
The great and the good of Ivory Coast and beyond are showing a keen interest in how Yolande Tanoh-Bakayoko is consolidating her late husband's nebulous Ivorian and European investments. [...]
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