West Africans in I.Coast meet for peaceful 2020 elections A "peace" meeting is being held in Gagnoa (centre-west) to ask the strong West African community in Ivory Coast not to be "instrumentalized" one year before the 2020 presidential election. Coming from the surrounding villages, thousands of people converged on Gagnoa's "Place Laurent Gbagbo" to receive a message from the Ivoiro-Burkinabe Emile Kima, a leading figure in the Burkinabe community. He urged them not to get involved in the country's politics one year before the October 2020 presidential elections in Ivory Coast, which are already causing political tensions. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES