2022 in Ivory Coast

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Events in the year 2022 in Ivory Coast.

Incumbents

• President: Alassane Ouattara
• Prime Minister Patrick Achi (Interim, starting March 8)^[1]

Events

Further information: Public holidays in Ivory Coast

Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Ivory Coast

• April 6 – Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty of complicity in the murder of the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. Compaoré has been in exile in Ivory Coast ever since resigning to the presidency following the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising.^[2]
• April 13 – Prime Minister Patrick Achi resigns due to President Outtara's plans to reshuffle the government.^[3]
• April 19 – Patrick Achi is reappointed prime minister with a cabinet reshuffle and the formation of a second government replacing his original cabinet.^[4]
• December 28 – A court in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sentences four Malian men to life imprisonment for inciting shootings that killed 19 people and injured 30 others at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam in 2016.^[5]

Deaths

• January 3 – Oussou Konan Anicet, 32, footballer (Makkasa, HJK, Nam Dinh), poisoned.^[6]
• January 13 – Lambert Amon Tanoh, 95, politician, minister of education (1963–1970), COVID-19.^[7]
• January 30 – Alphonse Douati, 67, politician.^[8]
• February 6 – Abraham Sie, 22, basketball player (ABC Fighters, DUC Dakar, national team).^[9]
• February 7 – Amadou Soumahoro, 68, politician, president of the National Assembly (since 2019).^[10]
• April 6 – Abraham Sie, 22, basketball player (ABC Fighters, DUC Dakar, national team).^[11]
• May 7 – Amadou Soumahoro, 68, politician, president of the National Assembly (since 2019).^[12]
• September 29 – Akissi Kouamé, 67, army officer^[13]
• October 30 – Martine Djibo, educator and politician, MP^[14]
• November 1 – Charles Nokan, 85, academic and writer.^[15]
• December 19 – Max Brito, 51, rugby union player (national team).^[16]
• December 25 – Luc Marius Ibriga, 66, Ivorian-born Burkinabé academic and jurist.^[17]

See also

• COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
• African Continental Free Trade Area
• Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

References

1. "Ivory Coast President Ouattara names Patrick Achi as interim prime minister". news.yahoo.com. Reuters. March 8, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
2. "Burkina Faso's ex-president guilty of complicity in murder of predecessor". the Guardian. 2022-04-06. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
3. "Ivory Coast prime minister and government resign". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
4. "Ivory Coast: Achi reappointed PM, regional bank chief named VP". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
5. "I.Coast hands down four life terms for 2016 jihadist attack". RFI. 2022-12-28. Retrieved 2022-12-29.
6. "Chấn động khi "vua phá lưới" V-League 2021 bị giết chết ở quê nhà". Báo Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). 2022-01-04. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
7. "Côte d'Ivoire: mort de Lambert Amon Tanoh, le «père de l'école ivoirienne»". RFI (in French). 2022-01-13. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
8. "Décès à Abidjan de l'ex-ministre ivoirien Alphonse Douati - Abidjan.net News". news.abidjan.net (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-16.
9. "Ivory Coast's Dakar University Club Abraham Sie dies at 22". boxscorenews.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
10. AFP. "Côte d'Ivoire: décès du Président de l'Assemblée nationale Amadou Soumahoro". DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-16.
11. "Ivory Coast's Dakar University Club Abraham Sie dies at 22". boxscorenews.com. Retrieved 2022-12-29.
12. AFP -. "Côte d'Ivoire: décès du Président de l'Assemblée nationale Amadou Soumahoro". DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-29.
13. "Côte d'Ivoire / Décès à Abidjan du général de brigade Akissi Kouamé". www.pressivoire.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-29.
14. Beganssou, Prince (2022-11-01). "Côte d'Ivoire : Décès de Martine Djibo, la première femme député de la ville de Bouaké". AFRIK SOIR (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-29.
15. "Côte d'Ivoire : Décès de Charles Nokan, une page noire pour la littérature". www.afrique-sur7.ci (in French). 2 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-29.
16. "Max Brito, who was paralysed at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, has died". www.rugbypass.com. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-29.
17. Ivory News, Mousso (2022-12-25). "Burkina : décès de Luc Marius Ibriga, ancien président de l'Autorité supérieur de contrôle de l'Etat - Mousso News" (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-29.