Ivory Coast: Local election campaigns in full swing Local election campaigns are in full swing in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's political capital. "Abobo-la Guerre", a large working-class district of some two million inhabitants, historically won by President Alassane Ouattara, today crystallizes the tensions that shake the presidential majority. Hamed Bakayoko, the Minister of Defence of President Alassane Ouattara, and Koné Tehfour, a schoolteacher and a former deputy supported by the President of the National Assembly Guillaume Soro, are fighting for the municipal elections. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES