President ALASSANE OUATTARA of Cote d’Ivoire has promised to carry out constitutional reforms if he wins a second term in office.

President ALASSANE OUATTARA of Cote d’Ivoire has promised to carry out constitutional reforms if he wins a second term in office. Ahead of elections on Sunday, President OUATTARA promised to see to the scrapping of a nationality clause that contributed to drag the West African country into ten years of civil war. The country operates a constitution ratified in the year 2000, which provides that presidential candidates must prove that both their parents are Ivorians who were born on Ivorian soil.