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Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara secures fourth term as early results reveal landslide victory
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term in office in an election characterized by low voter turnout and deserted streets in the country’s economic hub, Abidjan. Provisional results released Monday show Ouattara, 83, claiming 89.7% of the vote. Jean-Louis Billon, a former commerce minister from one of the nation’s wealthiest families, trailed…
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Ivory Coast candidates wrap up campaigns ahead of election on Saturday
Ivory Coast’s presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigns Thursday as the tense...
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“People can no longer make ends meet” – Ivorian voices rise against Ouattara’s fourth term
Placide Konan, a 33-year-old slam poet in Abidjan, has turned his art into a form of resistance,...
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“I’m committed to offering the best to our youth” — Ouattara calls on young Ivorians to participate in presidential election
President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast has called on the nation’s youth to come out...
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“It’s good for a woman to run” — Simone Gbagbo eyes history in Ivory Coast’s presidential race
More than a decade after she was dragged from a bunker alongside her then-husband, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo is attempting a dramatic return to power. Once branded the...
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237 protesters arrested in Ivory Coast ahead of presidential election
Authorities in Ivory Coast arrested at least 237 people on Saturday as police moved to break up a banned protest denouncing what activists described as the country’s slide toward authoritarian rule....
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Al-Qaeda-linked group burns fuel trucks as it tightens blockade on Mali imports
Militants linked to Al-Qaeda have opened a new front in Mali’s conflict by striking at the country’s fuel lifeline. Over the weekend, fighters belonging to Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin...
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Ivory Coast protesters demand inclusion of opposition leaders in presidential race
Thousands flooded the streets of Abidjan on Saturday, rallying against the exclusion of key opposition figures from Ivory Coast’s October presidential election. The demonstration, according to an...
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Ivory Coast opposition slams arrests as crackdown deepens ahead of October election
A major opposition party in Ivory Coast is raising alarm over what it describes as politically motivated detentions, accusing the government of targeting its members ahead of the country’s contentious...
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Ouattara’s fourth-term bid in Ivory Coast raises alarm over democratic backsliding in West Africa
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has announced he will seek a fourth term in office, a move critics fear signals a return to authoritarian-style leadership in a region already grappling...
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Thousands rally in Ivory Coast’s Abidjan to protest exclusion of opposition leader Tidjane Thiam from presidential race
Defying heavy downpours, thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Abidjan on Saturday to protest the disqualification of opposition figure Tidjane Thiam from Ivory Coast’s upcoming presidential...
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Ivory Coast confirms cholera outbreak with seven dead as officials warn of rapid spread
Ivory Coast health authorities have declared a cholera outbreak in the capital’s outskirts, reporting seven deaths and dozens of infections within days. This has reignited fears of a larger health...
