{"id":194227,"date":"2025-03-22T03:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coasts-economic-boom-faces-test-in-2025-election\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T03:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:56:52","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coasts-economic-boom-faces-test-in-2025-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coasts-economic-boom-faces-test-in-2025-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast&#8217;s Economic Boom Faces Test in 2025 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ivory Coast is experiencing one of Africa&#8217;s strongest economic recoveries, with annual GDP growth averaging 7% from 2012 to 2023<\/li>\n<li>outh unemployment stands at 5%, and GDP per capita reached $2,900 in 2024&#8211;the highest in West Africa after Cape Verde<\/li>\n<li>Political tensions are growing as Ouattara&#8211;now 83&#8211;may seek a controversial fourth term in elections later this year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Ivory Coast is experiencing one of Africa&#8217;s strongest economic recoveries, with annual GDP growth averaging 7% from 2012 to 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210419.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Ivory Coast is experiencing one of Africa&#8217;s strongest economic recoveries, with annual GDP growth averaging 7% from 2012 to 2023 outh unemployment stands at 5%, and GDP per capita reached $2,900 in 2024&#8211;the highest in West Africa after Cape Verde Political tensions are growing as Ouattara&#8211;now 83&#8211;may seek a controversial fourth term in elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,17391,9611,5958,6183,6555,5959,3576,3119,5080,6559,1218,257,254,6596],"class_list":["post-194227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boom","tag-coasts","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-economic","tag-election","tag-faces","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-test"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}