"Whoever is in control of the government will need to specify who is Ivorian and who is not," stressed Abahebou Kamagate in an interview with the Digital Freedom Network. As a human rights activist, Kamagate fought to challenge the government's increasingly restrictive citizenship laws that could exclude almost half the country's population, especially those from ethnic groups associated with the northern region. Kamagate is the vice president of SOS Exclusion, an Ivorian human rights organisation, and believes that the question of citizenship is at the root of the conflict which has divided the country between north and south.