Mutinies 'Humiliated' Ivory Coast, Parliament Speaker Soro Says
- Speaker Soro says mutineers’ demands weren’t legitimate
- Soro says he hasn’t decided if he’ll seek presidency in 2020
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A series of mutinies by soldiers in Ivory Coast demanding payments for supporting President Alassane Ouattara humiliated the West African nation, according to National Assembly Speaker Guillaume Soro, who once commanded the troops as a former rebel leader.
“I can only note that we are despised,” Soro, 45, said in an interview Sunday at his residence in Abidjan, the commercial capital. “It’s a humiliation for us -- the state, the president, myself and the institutions.”