Danièle Boni-Claverie (born ) is a journalist and politician in the Ivory Coast. She served in the country's

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and was founding president of the Union Républicaine pour la démocratie.

Biography

The daughter of , she was born in

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. She worked as a journalist, becoming chief editor for a newspaper and then head of

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(RTI). Formerly a member of the

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, Boni-Claverie served as Minister of Communications in the government of

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from 1993 to 1999. She served as Minister of Women and the Family and Children in the government of

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from 2010 to 2011. She was arrested in October 2016 after taking part in a demonstration requesting for the withdrawal of the country's new draft

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