20-10-2016 14:51 via news.yahoo.com

Ivory Coast police crack down on march against new constitution

Police in Ivory Coast arrested opposition figures and used teargas to disperse demonstrators gathering on Thursday to protest against a new draft constitution due to be voted on in a referendum later this month. President Alassane Ouattara says the new constitution will turn the page on a decade of political turmoil and civil war, but opposition leaders have called the document a step backward for democracy in French-speaking West Africa's largest economy. "We came here democratically to say no
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