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Côte
d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara talks during the swearing-in ceremony
held at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan on November 3, 2015 ©Sia Kambou (AFP)
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Côte d'Ivoire's President
Alassane Ouattara announced Thursday in his New Year's address that he had
reduced the sentences of 3,100 prisoners held over bloody post-election unrest.
Around
3,000 people died in five months of violence in 2010-2011 in the west African
nation following elections that saw Ouattara unseat then president Laurent
Gbagbo.
