Cote d’Ivoire: Ouattara Wins Elected Fourth Time As Ivory Coast President

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 per cent in a vote which his two greatest rivals were barred from, the electoral commission said Monday.

Nearly nine million voters were eligible to cast their ballot Saturday in the world’s top cocoa producer, which has resisted coups and jihadist attacks plaguing much of West Africa but which saw tensions soar and deadly violence in the run-up to the election.

Even before the provisional results’…