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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Opposition Leader Thiam Disqualified from C\u00f4te d’Ivoire Election<\/strong><\/p>\n C\u00f4te d’Ivoire’s main opposition leader,\u00a0Tidjane Thiam<\/a>, was disqualified from running in the upcoming October\u00a0presidential election<\/a>\u00a0when a court ruled that he forfeited his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen in 1987. Despite renouncing his French citizenship to contest the presidency, the judiciary deemed him ineligible, sparking criticism from Thiam, who called the ruling an “act of democratic vandalism”. His…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> \u00a0 Opposition Leader Thiam Disqualified from C\u00f4te d’Ivoire Election C\u00f4te d’Ivoire’s main opposition leader,\u00a0Tidjane Thiam, was disqualified from running in the upcoming October\u00a0presidential election\u00a0when a court ruled that he forfeited his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen in 1987. Despite renouncing his French citizenship to contest the presidency, the judiciary deemed him ineligible, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8142,4509,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-196617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196617","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=196617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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