POLICE have arrested an adviser to Ivory Coast’s former prime minister Alassane Ouattara in connection with an attempted coup. Police and paramilitary gendarmes searched the house of Jean Jacques Bechio, a former minister under Ivory Coast’s founding president Felix Houphouet-Boigny, and accused him of harbouring people connected with a thwarted coup earlier this month. State television showed footage of weapons and munitions which it said had been found in Bechio’s house. – Reuters