Cote d’Ivoire: Can Ouattara’s Third Term Deliver — or Is Time Up

A View from Afar

On October 25, this year, Ivorians head to the polls in an election that’s less about suspense — and more about soul-searching. President Alassane Ouattara, 82, is running for a controversial third term. Not because the rules invited him — but because he rewrote them.

A decade ago, Ouattara was the unifier: the calm, silver-haired economist from the IMF and World Bank who stepped into a nation shattered by civil war and Laurent Gbagbo’s defiant exit. Back then, Gbagbo’s…