Tipped as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, Bakayoko was flown to France on February 18 for medical checks and later to Freiburg in Germany where he kicked the bucket. COTE d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in Freiburg in south-west Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday. A former media executive who turned to politics, Bakayoko acted as a negotiator and intermediary between warring factions as a prolonged civil conflict…
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