The President Barack Obama decided to remove the sanctions against Ivory Coast, sanctions in place since 2006. "Côte d'Ivoire has taken important steps to strengthen its governing and economic institutions and reconcile the differences that led to war" specified Ned Price, White House spokesman. George W. Bush imposed the sanctions in 2006, for blocking a peace process when Laurent Gbagbo was the President. The Ivory Coast's former president is now on trial before the International Criminal Court concerning crimes against humanity. Finally, Ned Price depicted an "extraordinary progress" since 2011 and the end of the civil war . Ivory Coast appears nowadays as a model of reconstruction and development in the context of an economic rise, symbolized by the Henri Konan Bédié Bridge, "which embodies the country's progress" in the heart of Abidjan.

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