Ivory Coast takes major step towards national reconciliation

(Vatican Radio) Ivory Coast’s parliament has passed new laws to ease access to citizenship for foreigners and improve state regulation of land ownership. The two issues were at the heart of a decade of political crisis and violence in the west African nation.

Doudou Diene is a UN expert on the human rights situation in the Ivory Coast and he told Vatican Radio's Susy Hodges why the adoption of these two laws is such a major step towards national reconciliation.

Listen to the interview with Mr Diene: