{"id":199678,"date":"2025-06-06T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-opposition-leader-thiam-barred-from-presidency-race\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:35:06","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coast-opposition-leader-thiam-barred-from-presidency-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-opposition-leader-thiam-barred-from-presidency-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast Opposition Leader Thiam Barred From Presidency Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ivory Coast&#8217;s electoral commission has excluded Tidjane Thiam from the final list of candidates for the upcoming October 2025 presidential election<\/li>\n<li>The decision follows a court ruling earlier this year declaring Thiam ineligible due to his former dual nationality, which he renounced in March<\/li>\n<li>Other barred candidates include former president Laurent Gbagbo, ex-minister and ICC indictee Charles Bl\u00e9 Goud\u00e9, and former prime minister and rebel leader Guillaume Soro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Ivory Coast&#8217;s electoral commission&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060219.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>Ivory Coast&#8217;s electoral commission has excluded Tidjane Thiam from the final list of candidates for the upcoming October 2025 presidential election The decision follows a court ruling earlier this year declaring Thiam ineligible due to his former dual nationality, which he renounced in March Other barred candidates include former president Laurent Gbagbo, ex-minister and ICC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199679,"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":[258,256,7999,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,6559,1218,7079,257,5675,8404,5146,254,51157],"class_list":["post-199678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barred","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-presidency","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thiam"],"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\/199678","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=199678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}