Death of Ruling Party Candidate Upends Ivory Coast Presidential Race

JOHANNESBURG—The demise of the ruling-bash prospect in Ivory Coast’s Oct presidential election has unraveled a diligently choreographed succession system, screening the balance of 1 of the world’s fastest-rising economies.

Key Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died Wednesday, just times just after returning from two months’ clinical treatment method in France, where he experienced gained a heart transplant in 2012. The sixty one-year-aged was a near lieutenant of President Alassane Ouattara, a previous Global Financial Fund official who has overseen…