{"id":200283,"date":"2025-06-16T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoires-ouattara-poised-for-fourth-term-bid-as-opposition-pushes-back\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:55:04","slug":"cote-divoire-cote-divoires-ouattara-poised-for-fourth-term-bid-as-opposition-pushes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoires-ouattara-poised-for-fourth-term-bid-as-opposition-pushes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s Ouattara Poised for Fourth Term Bid As Opposition Pushes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em> C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire is preparing for a contentious presidential election in October as President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s supporters rally for his likely re-election bid. Meanwhile, opposition groups are demanding a fairer contest and the reinstatement of barred candidates. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The political temperature is rising in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire as President Ouattara&#8217;s ruling party prepares to confirm his likely bid for a fourth term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">For their part, opposition groups continue to protest the exclusion of their key&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160745.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>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire is preparing for a contentious presidential election in October as President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s supporters rally for his likely re-election bid. Meanwhile, opposition groups are demanding a fairer contest and the reinstatement of barred candidates. The political temperature is rising in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire as President Ouattara&#8217;s ruling party prepares to confirm his likely bid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200284,"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\/00661064:042661ca306891b1499b507300f8ed7a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,10798,5958,6183,6555,5959,10578,15935,1218,257,5675,1920,11553,16296,254,7557],"class_list":["post-200283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-divoires","tag-fourth","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-ouattara","tag-poised","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661064:042661ca306891b1499b507300f8ed7a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200283","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=200283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}