Ivory Coast: Assalé Tiémoko, the opposition figure without a mass party that the justice system won’t let go

Indicted and placed under judicial control, Assalé Tiémoko appears as one of the few Ivorian opposition members still holding an elective mandate and having a strong media presence. Without a major party behind him, the mayor of Tiassalé disrupts by his ability to impose topics in the public debate, in a context where the main…