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Hamed Bakayoko was an Ivorian politician who was Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from 8 July 2020 until his death on 10 March 2021 from a "fast-acting cancer"^[1]

There was no clear explanation for the sudden deterioration in his state of health, and even less for his death. Bakayoko, who was hit by Covid-19 twice and also by malaria, was not in the best of shape but "in excellent spirits". During the 2020 Christmas and New Year spent at his home in Assinie, Bakayoko didn’t display any signs of illness. While not himself believing he was poisoned, he mused “What’s strange is that Nestor [his butler] fell ill at the same time as me. We thought it was malaria. He lost more than 10kg.”^[1] They both ate the same food.

He had previously beenthe country's Minister of New Technologies, Information and Communication, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Defense.

Career

In 1990, Bakayoko started working as a journalist for Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirienne.^[2] In 1991, he founded the newspaper Le Patriote, and interviewed Alassa

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