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In 1983, Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny moved the country’s capital city from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro, his birthplace. Huge building sites were set up to transform what was a small village into a modern city: an international airport was built, a polytechnic institute, a presidential palace and even the world's largest church. But most institutions were never transferred to Yamoussoukro and few people ever moved there. FRANCE 24 takes a closer look at Ivory Coast's abandoned capital.
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I love these random videos that occasionally get renewed on everyone's recommended lists, years after they were posted.
Me too
Damn algorithm knows we can’t travel so it keeps teasing us with videos about other countries.
youtube is a time machine...?
wait horld on, 2019 was years ago?
Aye
"What do you do for a living?" I wrangle crocodiles back into their presidential lake on behalf of the fire department. "... what?!" What?
Lmaooo 😅
joke aside, it looks like they have developped some know-how on the matter, they (and some other places like Florida) must handle crocs more often than cat in trees.
Hahaha !! Only in Africa!!
@@wallingnaga6563 la9l00l999999l0l9099999999999900l0999000999l909990999999099099990099l00l9090099l9llll99
JaJa
@@sirdjorgostarcopper8735 And maybe Florida.
Dude 300,000 crocodiles 🐊!? In one town!? That’s nuts!!!!
And just 200,000 people!!!
Kkkk they can invade the whole town
@@shingirayioutdooradventure632 I wheezed!!!😂😂😂🤣
And the only food they get is 10 Oxen a month! TEN OXEN FOR 300,000 CROCODILES! No wonder they're killing civilians.
Get rid of the crocodiles , problem solved !!
My dad is from ivory coast and I'm really happy to see people talking about it, and even caring about the country's current state. Such an underappreciated country! ❤🇨🇮
I remember how beautiful this city was in the 1980s. Traveling from Daloa to Abidjan, arriving in Yamoussoukro was a sign of paved and well-maintained roads, streetlights lit at night. How sad to see all these degradations.
It's degraded because the Europeans that maintained it have all left.
@@italianboyz12345 Racist
@@alanfrost7696 *if* its true, then its not racist
@@alanfrost7696 Of course its 'racist' - its the truth. Without Europeans Africa has largely collasped.
@@alanfrost7696 Sometimes reality is disappointing. As you can see, the population to maintain such infrastructure isn't there. It was designed to be big but nobody moved there. It's also largely European technology in a country with a poor education system. So of the people living there, very few are educated to a level where the city could be run efficiently and maintained. It's a city focused on grandeur that completely ignored the skills which would need to be learned to make it function. The results are evident.
Not enough people are talking about how that guy’s predecessor was devoured by crocodiles
seems he might have been late and the crocs expressed their displeasure?
Seems like they value the Crocs more than the people.
I actually had to scroll back to make sure I heard that right
@@theemirofjaffa2266 it is true info tho. I knew the lovelu man who used to look after them.
I also heard a lot about thîs.
I was there in January 2020. Believe me, I have never seen a church so massive like this in my life.
As a Ghanaian, I had the chance of staying and working on Yamoussoukro for 5 months in 2013 and I could say it was such a lovely place but lacking a lot as well. See the poor roads now. And what at all is the use, still keep reptiles that put your lives at risk all in the names certain dirty river gods? Stupidity at its peak.
that’s the nature of idolotry
Try should renting it.to Hollywood movies. Thise roads need for.speed
And feeding them chicken.
All governments waste citizens money. It's just the rule money corrupts. Power corrupts, absolute power, Absolutely corrupts.
We also had such dragons here in Krakow, Poland.
You know what we did to them?
As a Catholic it’s a very nice church and I’d like to visit it someday, but honestly the president should’ve put the money to better use and improved upon infrastructure and on industry before creating a grand cathedral
Catholic is among of African problem
We can fix that crocodile problem for you one fried croc at a time. Love, Louisiana.
was gonna say the same thing
so you do eat the crocs? ive always wondered why all those people in the southern USA dont eat the crocs and alligators, like in the florida keys and other swamp areas. i hear there's a lot of them. and they can attack humans.
@@TheSuperappelflap crocodile meat require some knowledge to be prepared ... Because of the Bile , so , i guess that s the reason why not "many" people specialize in it , looool
Crocodile meat is quite tasty, and you can use the skin for bags, shoes, etc.
@@vladsnape6408 That is so true (about the meat) and in Africa crocodile skin bags and shoes are a sign of class and money !
It's really a shame, so much has been already invested, hopefully it won't go to waste. Yamoussoukro is in the heart of Ivory Coast, and Abidjan is congested. It would be good for both cities that Yamoussoukro be revived so that it absorbs population growth and gives Abidjan's infrastructure room to breath. Ivorians are great people, wishing you prosperity from Morocco.
@Donnell Okafor You are only one here you came to the same conclusion. Congrats !!!! Did you know they were offered to get a car factory from France in the 1980ies? They could have be built Renaults there.
@Donnell Okafor - how do people in Washington make money?
@Donnell Okafor If I am not mistaken, the plan was for transferring the whole gov services in the first place, which means all the civil servants and their salaries. That in itself is a considerable revenue source for all the rest of services, restaurants, commerce, transport. Not to mention construction. Then there is an opportunity for agribusiness. Anyhow, Industries do not just spring naturally as you might imagine. If the gov isn't actively promoting it, it will not happen. Other cities might be a better alternative for manufacturing though. Concentrating all dev in one place is risky for a country.
@@AlMoxtar - yes, the population and industry is far too concentrated on the coast.
This is an excellent piece. Thank you for making it available on TH-cam. We so rarely get a view like this of Ivory Coast.
I wonder if anyone told the locals that croc skins cost thousands of US dollars
I know they don’t know the price of croc skins 😂, if they ever find out, those same locals would be in that water fighting those croc bare fisted
@@MrBLAQ1000 honestly?? Do they not realize? Their supply of crocodiles would be an absolute boon for the city.
That's what I was thinking. Local factory to make croc skin goods for export. 300K crocs could make a lot of purses & shoes.
I'm from Ghana and my grandfather lives in Yammousokro. I love the people. Everyone is friendly
I wish friendliness was a virtue on which to build a functioning modern society.
I do love the country do much 🇿🇲❤️🇨🇮
I wish the Ivorian people prosperity and development.
I worked in Yamoussoukro for a few months last year and to say it’s empty is very unfair. Many countries have capitols that aren’t the first cities. Also even if not totally successful, Yamoussoukro made sense as a capital for geographical and administrative reasons. Great place and I’d definitely recommend going there
How did you find the people.. and what shareable experiences did you have there?
No thanks
Yeah even Washington DC isn't a big city, it was built to be the centre of the first 13 states. Much like how this city is in the centre of the Ivory Coast. Although they probably should have put more money into planing the city as a whole and not splashing out on buildings that look good but serve little function people's day to day, but maybe it's too early to make a judgment on it. Rome wasn't built in a day.
@@ab00abdullah so I’ve worked in Africa quite a lot now but honestly I’d say CI, or Tigray in Ethiopia, have been my favourite trips. The people were really friendly and as it isn’t as popular internationally, it’s far less of a tourist trap than Abidjan (Which is not to say Abidjan isn’t worth seeing in its own right).
I wouldn’t be able to say whether or not there’s a huge amount to do from a tourists perspective as we hardly had any time off work but there’s plenty of cool looking bars and a huge market near the city centre. It’s all relatively cheap as well.
I am Ivorian, from Abidjan and this was really informative. I didn’t know there was that much crocodile in Yamoussoukro!😭😭
You're country is really clean
And be careful next time you visit nearby Grand Bassam. Someone released a crocodile couple in one of the streams there years ago and rumors of sightings, even in the lagoon, still occur.
"How was Houphouet able to keep peace in the 28 years of his rule?'',That kid asked a very sensible question
by kowtowing to Francafrique.
@@Ali-7676 so France created peace?
@@johnmcdonald9295 illusion of peace.
@@johnmcdonald9295
Can't really say they created peace but simply gave them a break.
Those responsible for the absence of peace when it suits them cannot be said to create peace. If it seems peaceful, which only means no guns and canons but not the absence of preventable suffering there is no peace.
@@CR1992.. Africa population 1900 140 million 1950 177 million now its 1.3billion it grew an incredible 1 million thanks to yt aid, food ,medicines and sharing their technology.thats where Africa problems are
Have to admit that church is amazing!!
Yes but the people are poor.
@@johankiiza5814 Money from the poor goes back to the Pope of Rome.
@@mbrowne8166 goes back to the people through schools and hospitals. A cycle basically. Not bad imo
Peace and blessings from Jamaica 🇯🇲 but i hope to see you guys build hospitals in The country bigger than this
It's a shame.
@Diamond Butterfly Nigeria exported thousands of doctors, many Africans preferred the traditional medicine,and francophones countries France make sure they're not develop,France make sure they don't have hospitals that's France agenda to keep these countries very poor and rely on France aid.
African leaders have misplaced priorities..
@@watchingthehawks355 don't blaming other people, for their responsibility
@Diamond Butterfly better to build hospitals first, than you will know the amount of doctors u need , according to the number of hospitals you have
This piece was amazing. Well done.
Always good to hear what is going on in the rest of the 🌎.
Naypyitaw, Myanmar: *Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary.*
At least Naypyidaw is still well mantained, at least for now
change the name of the video to CROCODILES OF IVORY COAST
Wow - this is quite a different place from Abidjan.
The man had a big dream, I actually wish that it went through, the capital seems like it would be a model capital.
I absolutely agree.
Tbh, I think Abidjan would be more fitting.
@@danalivingabroad Build this church in africa is useless
@@corgimations Abidjan is too congested to be a political capital and it's not central in location.
@@anthonyabrefa4554 while the rest of the world was busy building rockets and other ships, Africans were busy building churches and mosques. Trust Africans to build temples to foreign idiologies that they don't own.
Wow, the old palace would make a beautiful 7 star hotel for revenue, with spa's and stage art's with producing family ranches around them
More stars than guests.
That city should have started with people in mind. problem solved.
Yeah, huge wide roads in a town where everyone is on foot is a terrible idea. And the crocs lol.
@@bernardfinucane2061 probably needed more room for his motorcade. the crocs are right up there with Escobar's zoo.
@@bernardfinucane2061 ----- We have already learned from the example of Brasilia in Brazil or Naypyidaw in Myanmar that governments are totally incapable of building capital cities on a human scale. It's very expensive and massively wasteful for third world countries to spend their money in this way.
@@bruxi78230 Exactly
@@bruxi78230 naypyidaw sure, but isnt brasilia relatively successful? it has 2.5 million people and highest gdp in brazil
I was there in 2017 it is a beautiful city but it was really empty. Had an amazing experience though.
This area has a nice atmosphere
You must be his descent lolest
I'll bet the filth at the top of the corruption lives in a wonderful house!
I thought I had a fly in my computer hahaha
@@eriksaxton3817 Well bizarrely 8 other people understand you. And so much so they even liked you? Welcome to 2021, the year of the insanely dumb.
@@timjamesg158 👍Par for the course unfortunately. TH-cam is simply full of stupid people, where only 2-5% truly aren't.
Thank you for sharing this, I love the deep faith of the people. Showed me something I’ve never seen of this country before.
The only question I have is why is the capital not on the water side for trade? Would definitely make the country more accessible and wealthier as most countries in the world have their capitals on water. Thank you
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. ... When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." Archbishop Desmond Tutu
That was Kenyatta jomo and not tutu
and Tutu got rich off the Misery of the poor Africans
@@tsunamimaica4223 ⁸thanks Tsumani🙏
@@stevephillips3541 No comment about that mr Phillips
@@stevephillips3541 Quoting the wrong people and then maligning good men, you need to grow up and act like an adult
I remembered reading about this cathedral many years ago of which the western media deemed it the “Basilica in the bush.” Lovely building, but what a waste of money; money that could have been used for practical purposes for the people of that nation
Very true, Donald. It’s pure corruption. And why have those dangerous crocodiles. It’s absolutely mad!! Very sad for the local people.
Umm, didn't Houphouet-Boigny build it with his own money?
@@jabujolly9020 and where do you think ‘his own funds’ came from.
Most of these leaders become out of touch with reality when they reach that level of leadership.
@@jabujolly9020 Well given that Ivory Coast was basically his personal possession I guess you could say it was his money.
A disgusting waste of the country's money while most of the population live in squalor. These buldings should never have been bult.
@@renehagens4360 he stole billions from the country.
@@desbrittain9952 That is what dictators do. Steal a lot of the country's money and do what they think is right. That fool took millions of Ivory Coast's money, dogged a big hole in his birth town, and buried it in a useless building. When will dictatorship end in Africa? Uganda, Cameroon, and so on. They leave a lot of mess behind when they joined their ancestors.
@@algbotoe4596Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Rwanda, Congo Brazzaville, Chad, the 2 Sudans.
Thanks
I spent a couple of months here working on a mining exploration project a few years ago, strange and interesting place, and yes I fed a chicken to a crocodile in the lake.
I like how everyone is here within the last week or two
Amazing and beautiful basilica...those stained glass windows are so beautifully made by obvious artisans.
Imported. Even the marble was imported.
A 20 minutes story about crocodiles.
Yeah it’s interesting...
I'm impressed, better than many present day BBC productions but a classic study in what has gone wrong in most African countries since independence from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
Or what has gone wrong because of the europeans greed
Maybe people want to know why this country still pays France commissions for using the French powered currency?
Rules regarding holding a certain portion of fx reserves in the French treasury are both good and bad for west African countries.
On one hand it provides stability and stops random regional deskpots from wasting it such as in this video.
However it probably is economic exploitation from France as they know a lot of West African countries can’t afford to run their own currency and can therefore use it as regional leverage.
Seems like a nice destination for Bald and Bankrupt
Why are you underestimating my beautiful political capital. Well, there are a all lot of places this western media didn’t show, don’t judge a book just by its cover.
There's nothing soviet here
HAhahahahaha! YES!
or Drew Binsky
Yeah
Beautiful!
The Ivory coast went down when the French took all their investments out and industry, the Americans did like wise leaving them flat and can not get back up because they have nothing any more to trade. I saw no self pity when I was there but a hard working people. They are very proud of their Cathedral.
Every country the French colonized are in shambles. I’m sure if the French colonized Nigeria and Ghana instead of the British. We won’t be were we are today.
@@MASTV__ well, there is truth to this, but it's the President that spent 100 million on a church instead of hospitals or factories.
@@MASTV__ Among richest country in Africa is Gabon/mauritius.... French , among poorest are Somalia/Sierra Leone/RDC => not French. By the way Ivory Coast is not the worse off in the Area but 60 years after independance they sure didn't always make best decisions ( per capita its still on par with Ghana and Nigeria) . Please check stuff before spiting out hate
@@tayloryoung9803 hate??? Wait hate on Ivory Coast or the French. I don’t hate any African country it’s all love. But for sure don’t like how the French ran their colonies. Unlike British, Spain and Portuguese. Most French colonies are in shambles and that’s fact
@@MASTV__ i just answered you by facts , I showed you that within Africa the richest countries were former french colonies while the poorest weren't. As to with other colonial powers you have to compare apples with apples. So latin America cant be compared with Africa, this is where I point out your mistaken approach that seems tinted with prejudice and hartred. France never had population colonies as English or Spanish with massive influx of natives to replace locals if you refer to those ex colonies as not being in shambles.
Oh wow, I have some extended family that live in Ivory Coast, they live in Abidjan, I never heard of this capital city though rip
YOOOOOOOOOOO, never thought I would see you here.
Nice report... This shows, when you love something, you would kill to make it work
It looks like a good shooting location for abandoned towns
Oh! "Steve the Crocodile Hunter" would have been delighted to see these beauties! Meanwhile, Cote d'ivoire do some touristy thing with Yamasoukkro. 300k Crocodiles is a bit too much for "sacred" saving...😊😊😊 Turn the thing to a Crocodile Kingdom so we can come see them.
The Land of the Crocs!🐊🐊
I love❤ the 16 year old Taekwando Champions' thinking. When i was 16, i too wanted to leave my small city to explore the world. Go girl!!! 👍🏾🌼👍🏾
Crocodile Hunter? Dad?
@@krakendragonslayer1909 Steve Irwin
No food on the table to people but food to croks smart people
If you don't keep the crocs fed, what will you feed your undesirables to, when the time arises.
@@nas8326 kill the croks and eat the meat there are farms of croks its to dangerous to have people and croks
@@nas8326 you sound crazy. Just kill the crocs and feed the people the crocs meat.
@@JcLazy1 and what are you going to feed the people that don't fit in to?
@@nas8326 what ? Please explain. If English isn’t your language, write it in French.
You lost me at “...built with his own funds...”
that he stole from the nation
I'm sure it was just savings from his official government salary, lol.
prudent investing
Instead of hospitals and schools people got giant church and a bunch of crocodiles)))) yes, smart man)))
They have a hospital. Pope John Paul II refused to go to the Cathedral if there is no hospital.
The Problem of the city is not the a hospital or not. It is about jobs there. Where a companies, factories or industrial plants?
the transition in 4:32 is so funny... :D
the little slip as he went to feed to croc LOL
"Attention!"
I love what the president build in that place ☺️
Fascinating
This is like Dodoma for Tanzania. We have been trying to make it the official Capital since the 70s. Magufuli tried to fulfill Nyerere's eras dream but his death I think just killed that dream too. I don't think the current administration will continue pumping money into it. The only difference is Nyerere was not from Dodoma
Just like chato 😂😂😂
@@robertkita8321 I guess the problem here their former President wanted to build in his home town like our late President.
@Mpimbi salim Dodoma na hii kesi vinafanana kwa hivi. Nyerere na wenzake waliweka plan ya kuijenga Dodoma iwe makao makuu ya nchi. Wakadizaini Dodoma iwe jiji, plan hiyo haikumalizika kipindi cha Nyerere hadi leo makao makuu ya Dodoma bado ni ndoto kama hawa WaIvory Coast wanavyouhesabu huo mji kuwa ni makao makuu(wakadizaini uwe jiji) lakini shughuli zote za kiserikali zipo Abidjan. Tanzania ni hivyo hivyo bado ni Dream. Magufuli alijaribu kuhamishia wizara Dodoma lakini mwenyewe miaka yote alikuwa DAR. Nakubali tofauti uliyoiona kwamba huyu rais wao alitaka aihamishie mji alipozaliwa ambapo ni tofauti na walivyofanya kina Nyerere.
Even NayPyiDaw in Myanmar/Burma 🇲🇲 . They moved the capital from Yangon.
@@MrKevin90 Yea it's crazy dodoma yamoussoukro and Naypyidaw are all the same !
VS Naipaul wrote a book about tis exact scenario, its called A Bend In Te River
Hmmm
I remember reading a book by Naipaul, “The Crocodiles of Yamasokrous”
Misspelled “unknown” on the graphic at the beginning. Upper right
Thank - you .
France should be reporting on the damage they did to this country.
"French technicians contributed to the "Ivoirian miracle". In other African nations, the people drove out the Europeans following independence, but in Ivory Coast, they poured in. The French community grew from only 30,000 prior to independence to 60,000 in 1980, most of them teachers, managers, and advisors.[44] For 20 years, the economy maintained an annual growth rate of nearly 10%-the highest of Africa's non-oil-exporting countries."
Is this what you are aiming at?
@@prolarka Interesting. So what went wrong in 1980 to make the economy go south?
@@sigerian1085 I dont know. Somebody more familiar with their history might tell us. Maybe they no longer celebrated diversity and inclusion as much as they do in the US nowadays. They crushed the White Lives Matter movements too. Who knows.
@@prolarka Development in Africa shouldn't depend on including whites. I'll do some research to find out what went wrong in the 80s, but the country seems to be moving in the right direction nowadays.
@@sigerian1085 The latest mainstream attitude is that all progress and development everywhere depends on diversity. That is the left liberal attitude. Teamwork makes the dream work :)
This such a wonderful place to built a city in all
The open land. You easily developed into a thriving city
5:29 Right after he said that he almost slipped.
Why would ANY African nation donate ANYTHING to ....... The vatican??? Like. EVER. Why???
Indoctrination
Just dumb leaders
because that is literally how catholicism works. this is why the reformation happened.
@@xcaliber302 remember this is stupid leaders from all over Africa somebody put them in charge and we still paying the price
@@kamal171 sad situation. France is a terrible colonial master.
Very interesting video. Confirms me in financing parts of their health system.
Corruption at the very pinnacle where human life has no significance. How can these men call themselves leader? Politicians are a scourge on humanity.
They are representation of the people who elect them. Aren't they?
Beautiful place
African leaders and misplaced priorities 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Of course the initial stages are controversial. Its the same story - "leaders inappropriately directing public resources to ensure that their 'home' towns surpass every other region in the nation - regardless of other priority factors." - "Foreign faiths are not our solution" - --
And that mentioned "Peace" has nothing to do with those faiths but our intrinsic nature. We are basically peaceful people.
Most are puppets
@@nmagain24 All leaders are puppets
Personal interests. Inherent culture of corruption. Tribalism. Foreign governments. Global corporations. "Foreign aid", etc.
This is the opposite of watching a China or a singapore video, they manage to make all the wrong moves. 120 Million€ on a church but the young boy is weaving a rug out of wooden sticks. Way to be backwards!!
The value of the rug comes from being a traditional handicraft not from being factory made.
Its called CULTURE but really lack progress.
@@tuforu4 Don't be silly. Do you think modern textile factories don't exist in Ivory Coast?
@@sporo2000 you’re proof there’s no hope for Africa. You’re silly.
This was and is very stupid and idiotic to build the world’s biggest cathedral in Ivory Coast at a cost of over 120 million US dollars, instead of building the country’s biggest hospital or several health centres in Ivory Coast. Very poor leadership, very poor planning, and waste of state resources.
He was much more concerned with saving Ivorian souls than their health and wellbeing. Their next door neighbour Ghana's president is also building a Cathedral. Dictators or not, they are all obsessed with white elephants.
America builds New York Central park for every one to enjoy. African presidents are obsessed with Cathedrals
@@Mali-kd1zz What? Is the president of Ghana also building a cathedral? Where in Ghana? People should tear it down.
@@Didmasela wish we could tear it down,I always wonder what goes on in the heads of African rulers
@@augustineopoku7046 nothng but stupidity.
10:15 the golden ram in the background is so fitting, like a calf, but worse
Africa is BOOMING and this is juts the start. the population is growing and the economy around the continent is growing as well. Would love to go and help out any way I can. For now I just give to charity, I hope many others can too.
Went here in the summer of 2019 while I was travelling Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin... was debating whether or not to make the detour to Yamoussoukro, but so glad I did. At first it feels just like any flat dusty town in Africa but then you see the cathedral and monuments and they look so out of place.. but a must see place nonetheless....
How was ghana though? In your view how is ghana
@@elormkwesi3701 great, I went mainly to see the Cape Coast castles... my favourite place was Butare though great beach and so laid back
@@glennaldosf ohh you sure , really want to head there next month ...just needed to hear some experiences and sights
@@elormkwesi3701 are you from there? Kwesi sounds like a Ghanaian name?
@@glennaldosf I'm half Ghanaian, was born in Chicago and would like to visit my homeland ASAP
Roast the Crocs!!! Make shoes and pocket books.
... If you want to make bags of the crocs then tear down the giant church to make housing material for the people and burn the wooden furniture of the church as fuel for cooking. Do the same to the mosques too. At least the crocs are indigenous to the Motherland.
Heavenly Beautifully Black. You would be a nice meal for them crocs, but that's it, unlike the croc, there's no other use for you.
@@ThePrincipality-dy1iq
They shouldn't be this many. They don't belong in those lakes. Not every river is meant to be croc infested.
wow very good
that is one crazy-ass place.
The Taekwondo champion should try to get a college scholarship to Korea! They would probably give her a full government scholarship based on her talent. 😊
Depends on what Korea? The real one, or the fake American one?
Koreans/most Asians hate Black People
@@bushido5838 #oksamurai 🙄
I lived in Korea for 5.5 years and had a GREAT time if the language was easier, I would've applied for a resident visa. You do you tho!
@@timjamesg158 there is no such thing as a real or fake Korea.
@@blamethelag4992 Isn't there? So these places Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla never existed? Well how strange, I never knew that, thanks for putting me right.
I still respect him for supporting Biafra's independence during the '67 - 70 War!
Tnx
Both losers
He even relocated a good number of Biafrans in Abidjan Treichville
Wonderful Basilica
fascinating video!
This is why African presidents should be governed by a congress like entity. Country starves while they buy 500 gold Mercedes and build 200 million euros worth church
Did you read what you wrote?
Building new capitals by some African countries is misplaced priorities.
Very Good!...
The best kind of place
France 24 you better make documentaries about the slums of Paris !! Also like in Africa but on other continent !!🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
and filled with africans. that was one nice self own.
when that man slipped as he was about to feed those crocodiles I could feel the atheism leave my body
Beautiful 😍 city
What a mad place
Also, people literally starving and you’re feeding crocodiles. We are a wretched people.
@Frank O'Dwyer A fifth of the population
Noone is starving over here... thanks to Houphouët-Boigny and technology ... Most young ivorians are rich now and soon we will be the weathest country in Africa and when Jesus will come back from Ivory Coast, we will be the first in the world. Its a prophecy ... let’s see
@@universalpromotion5181 this is sarcasm right? 😲
@@TawaniAnyangwe i’ve said it is a prophecy
@Frank O'Dwyer lol was that ironic?
Wow...they can turn the city to the crocodile capital of the world. They would make huge money from Tourists. Having 300,000 crocodiles is not a joke.
They should kill 99% of them - 3000 are still enough. Crocodile steaks are great.
Don't get me wrong: I love nature - but those crocodiles are brought there by human, that is why also humans have to controll the problem.
I love animals especially crocs but this number is too high, their leaders should care about their people than those crocs
Shocking
The video is now gaining views. Informative. The president had a hearty vision for his country.
turning your home village into a new capital is very pointless and boastful, shows misplaced priorities. Money could be much better spent elsewhere
Coulibaly is totally of a different perspective
The town sounds like a Ghanaian Ashanti city, for kro means town of...it's common in Ghana, and the Baules are Ashantis indeed.
Imagine if this was invested on health education infrastructure
Lol the croc lake is insane! Little boy fell? Jeez
Imagine
People in Ivory Coast now maybe look after Didier Drogba more than Houphuet-Boigny
I bet my bad toe aint no 300,000 crocs over there.....
In unrelated video, there are 3 M lions in Nairobi, 1 M hippos in Kampala and 3 pigeons in Yaounde.....
3M lions in Nairobi...i wish it was...coz we wont worry about them going extinct one day...but even in the eco system i dont think they can be in that huge numbers
Imagine if this president had built a hospital instead of this gigantic building of a Church??
The vision was good, that huge church is a potential tourist spot capable of helping the economy around it although the entire city vision failed