Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday Jan 10,2017 named outgoing prime minister Daniel Kablan Duncan as the country's first vice-president and chose a key aide, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, as the new premier.
Addressing a special session of parliament, Alassane Ouattara described 73-year-old Duncan as "devoted, a loyal collaborator" and "a patriot and great servant of the state".
The new post of vice-president was set up under constitutional changes voted by referendum and approved in November 2016
Former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, who served as premier for five years until 2012, was re-elected parliament speaker on Monday Jan 09,2017
Also on Monday Jan 09,2017, Ouattara fired the heads of the country's armed forces and police after a brief army mutiny that stoked security fears in the world's top cocoa producer.
The two-day revolt was worst in the country's second city of Bouake, the cradle of a failed attempt in 2002 to oust then president Laurent Gbagbo.
The revolt sliced the former French colony into the rebel-held north and the government-controlled south and triggered years of unrest.
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