For many years.

For many years, Cote d'Ivoire was known for its tradition of ethnic inclusiveness, us long as for its economic and political stability. President Felix Houphouet Boigny, who rul from 1960 to 1993 pursu a policy of national cohesion and actively encouraged immigration from other parts of West Africa.

even now the story of the past decade provides a salutary rebuke in how easily a stable, economically able to endure country can be quickly brought to its knee by way of weak political leadership which attempts to cling to power by the agency of playing the ethnic card.

Most of the foreign workers who were welcomed into the