A discussion with the President-elect of Cote d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara

The Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in collaboration with the National Democratic Institute and the Open Society Foundations, will be hosting, “A discussion with the President-elect of Cote d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara,” on Friday, January 14, 2011. A telephone link to the Golf Hotel, where Ouattara and his government-in-waiting are confined, will allow the President-elect to address a public audience in Washington, D.C. His remarks will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Akwe Amosu, Director of African Advocacy at the Open Society Foundations, and Chris Fomunyoh, Senior Associate for Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

We wish to include you and your readers in this exciting event, as the stalemate continues between incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and internationally-recognized President-elect Alassane Ouattara. We encourage you to post our live webcast on your blog for your readers to watch. The embed code is:

Additionally, the full video and audio will be available on our webpage following the event; we encourage you to post these to your blog as well. Please visit http://csis.org/event/discussion-president-elect-cote-divoire for more details and to obtain the multimedia following Friday’s event. Full details of our event are included below as well (all times are EDT).

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