 Ivory Coast President Alassane Huattara and long-time rival Lauren Babu hogged on Tuesday at their first meeting in over a decade. It is a part of efforts to ease political tensions in the country. Huattara welcomed the former president of the presidential palace in Abidjan and the two smiled for the cameras while holding hands. Ivory Coast has for more than a decade faced political tension, mistrust and violence. In 2010-2011, civil war killed over 3,000 people as a two-man vial for power. The civil war began after Babu refused to concede a electoral defeat to Huattara in December 2010.