{"id":201080,"date":"2025-06-27T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-african-union-court-denies-cote-divoire-opposition-leaders-appeals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:18:50","slug":"cote-divoire-african-union-court-denies-cote-divoire-opposition-leaders-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-african-union-court-denies-cote-divoire-opposition-leaders-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: African Union Court Denies Cote d&#8217;Ivoire Opposition Leaders&#8217; Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em> The African Union&#8217;s human rights court has rejected petitions by former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former prime minister Guillaume Soro to overturn bans on their running in the country&#8217;s upcoming presidential election. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Gbagbo and Soro petitioned the African Court on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights in 2020, arguing their rights had been violated by the Ivorian justice system, which has barred them from standing in the 25 October presidential election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.african-court.org\/wpafc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tanzania-based court<\/a> ruled Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270085.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>The African Union&#8217;s human rights court has rejected petitions by former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former prime minister Guillaume Soro to overturn bans on their running in the country&#8217;s upcoming presidential election. Gbagbo and Soro petitioned the African Court on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights in 2020, arguing their rights had been violated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201081,"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\/00650344:2d5e09b086c03df57d8357ee011fb984:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,4380,4344,5958,6183,6555,6185,5959,7651,1218,4381,257,5675,254,6156],"class_list":["post-201080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-appeals","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-court","tag-divoire","tag-denies","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650344:2d5e09b086c03df57d8357ee011fb984:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201080","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=201080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}