Al Qaeda attack will not derail Ivory Coast revival: president

By Loucoumane Coulibaly GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - President Alassane Ouattara vowed on Wednesday that an al Qaeda-claimed attack on an Ivory Coast beach resort that killed 19 people would not derail the nation's post-war revival. Ouattara won re-election by a landslide in October, pledging to attract foreign investment to the largest economy in French-speaking West Africa, also the world's top cocoa producer. The progress we've made in the past four years must be further reinforced,"