After the talks with Ouattara, Mushikiwabo, who is currently Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East Africa affairs, said she shared with the President her plans for OIF.
“An instrumental meeting today with President Ouattara at Abidjan. He advised the candidate Mushikiwabo to have a road map based on precise and achievable objectives for Francophonie, which he believes lacks concrete results,” reads her tweet.
Prior to reaching Côte d’Ivoire, Mushikiwabo campaigned in Burkina Faso the same day. She was also in Tunisia and Niger for the same mission on Friday and Saturday respectively.
She has been meeting Heads of State in OIF member countries for about three months.
She is campaigning against the Canadian Michaëlle Jean who is serving her first term as OIF Secretary General since 2015.
OIF General Assembly of Heads of State is expected in Armenia on October 11-12. The assembly will vote the organisation’s General Secretary for the next four years.
Founded in 1970, OIF or La Francophonie as it is widely known, brings together 58 French speaking countries from across the world.
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