Henri Konan Bédié, Ivory Coast President Deposed in a Coup, Dies at 89 As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/africa/henri-konan-bedie-ivory-coast-president-deposed-in-a-coup-dies-at-89.html #zapathon #plebchain #nostr