The Administration is present in an effective way within the District of Yamoussoukro where it is represented by the various services of the State.

Thus all the ministries, through the services coming under their responsibilities, function there normally. One can quote for example the ministry for the public health, the ministry for the economic infrastructures, the ministry for the economy and finances, the ministry for defense etc. The security and defense device of the District of Yamoussoukro includes a Prefecture of police force, three Police Stations, a Gendarmerie squad, a company of Gendarmerie and a barracks of the Republican Guard, and Firemen.

The institutions of defense and security whose mission is to take care of the safety of the goods and the people, while fighting against the banditism, settle down to guarantee peace and safety within the District. The Republican Guard and the militia, formerly Presidential Guard, take up now the same duties reserved for the regular forces of defense and safety. It is advisable to also note the presence of a Gendarmerie squad in Didiévi.

The medical chart of the District of Yamoussoukro, is presented in the following way: a Regional hospital complex (CHR) including ail the services (Pediatric, gynecology, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Dentist’ s surgery, Medicine etc.), thirty seven centers of health, distributed on the who le territory of the District, a sector of rural health, a service of school and university health, a private clinic, a dental private clinic, and seven Private Dispensaries of Pharmacy.

If it is a sector which one can reasonably say that the District of Yamoussoukro can draw pride, it is really that of Education. Indeed, the District of Yamoussoukro enjoys as a whole, of a definitely satisfactory school cover. Ailleveis of teaching from the Pre-school to the superior are practically represented. One counts a hundred and eighty six (186) primary schools within the District of Yamoussoukro, public, private and denominational, included These schools are distributed as weil in the chief town of the District as in the sub-prefectures and villages which it counts.

In the secondary, the District counts two colleges, the mixed college and the college of the girls named Mamie Adjoua. One counts also six private colleges. A T echnical Center is also noted.

In the superior, the Polytechnic National Institute named Houphouët-Boigny (INP¬HB) gathers three high Schools namely the Agronomic Higher National School (ENSA), the Higher National School of Public works (ENSTP) and the Higher National Institute of Technical Teaching (INSET).

Still in the superior, one can also quote the Higher Center of Animation and Teacher training (CAFOP). Let us announce also the presence of a modern college in Didiévi.

The Hotel President is of not to be doubted the most beautiful floret of the hotel infrastructures of the District of Yamoussoukro.

Receptive Hotel of great standard with its two hundred and twenty five air¬conditioned rooms equipped with televisions and video, its restaurants and bars, its swimming pool, its cinema, its Tennis court and its Golf links, it offers the comfort and conveniences to satisfy the most demanding visitors.

Moreover, this prestigious Hotel Establishment has a room of conference able to accommodate seminars, conferences and symposiums. ln addition to the hotel President, there exist some Hotels of medium standard such as the Hotel Bonheur l and II, the Hotel Akraya, the Royal Hotel, ailliable to offer certain basic conveniences.

With the tourist plan, the District of Yamoussoukro has real assets. It indeed has significant sites and attractions which make it be one of the principal tourist destinations of the country.

The Basilica Our Lady of Peace, as a religious building, is none the less tourist attraction.

Larger than the Saint-Pierre Basilica of Rome, it is by its architectural beauty, the expression of human genius and represents the symbol of the faith of one man, Houphouët-Boigny, who made it a gift to the Vatican.

There is also the animais park of Abokouamékro. Located at about fifty kilometers from Yamoussoukro, this park is of an exceptional beauty. It extends on 21.000 hectares of which 7.230 hectares were enclosed and arranged, and shelters a lake of 350 hectares. Hundred and twenty kilometers of track go over it. One can discover white hippopotamus and rhinoceros.

The proximity with the chief town of the District resolves ail possible difficulties of access and lodging. With the number of tourist curiosities to discover in the District of Yamoussoukro, one can also quote the hydroelectric dam of kossou which is one of the most significant of the country.

It is advisable to add to this list of the sites and tourist curiosities of the District of Yamoussoukro the lake for the caimans, the Palace of the hosts, the State planting of Toumbokro.

One can classify in the category of the historic buildings, the residence of late President Felix Houphouët Boigny and the burial vault of the Boigny family. It also has the museum named Adja Swa, which shows a side of the culture of the populations Akouè and Nanafouè.

The Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for peace research represents a high place of the culture. It is an instrument with scientific and political vocation, to serve the search of an ideal of peace between the people. We also have, the Mô-Faitai Center, intended for the demonstrations in cultural matter.

The craft industry, on the level of the District of Yamoussoukro is diversified and is present as weil in urban zone as in rural zone.

It employs both the young people and the women, for whom it can make up a very good source of income if it is suitably organized.

In other words, this sector needs a real promotion to pass from the current informai sector to a true economic activity, productive of viable resources. One distinguishes the woodcarving, basket making, the pottery, goldsmithery, weaving etc… there are for example the loincloths made by the weavers of the village of Bomizambo.

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