{"id":199048,"date":"2025-05-29T07:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-political-tension-in-cote-divoire\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:16:03","slug":"cote-divoire-political-tension-in-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-political-tension-in-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Political Tension in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Economic successes do not obviate the need for political transition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">In March of this year, <em>The Economist<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2025\/03\/20\/the-success-of-ivory-coast-is-africas-best-kept-secret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ran a story<\/a> headlined &#8220;The Success of Ivory Coast is Africa&#8217;s Best-Kept Secret.&#8221; With over a decade of sustained growth rates above 6 percent per year, demonstrable progress in adding value to its raw materials before export, building its services sector, and attracting investment, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s successes deserve attention and celebration. But the growth story is not the whole&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505290053.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>Economic successes do not obviate the need for political transition. In March of this year, The Economist magazine ran a story headlined &#8220;The Success of Ivory Coast is Africa&#8217;s Best-Kept Secret.&#8221; With over a decade of sustained growth rates above 6 percent per year, demonstrable progress in adding value to its raw materials before export, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199049,"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":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,1218,257,6378,254,7180],"class_list":["post-199048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tension"],"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\/199048","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=199048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}