{"id":203570,"date":"2025-07-30T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-of-africa-today-july-30-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:26:49","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-july-30-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-of-africa-today-july-30-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; July 30, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Ivory Coast President Ouattara Seeks Fourth Term <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"132\">Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300069.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> to run for a <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160745.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth term<\/a> in the upcoming October election. The 83-year-old said his health was not an issue and his candidacy was driven by a need to &#8220;preserve national stability amid ongoing security and economic challenges&#8221;. He said that his health was not a concern and argued that the 2016 constitutional reform reset his term limit, allowing him to stand again. The<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00093122.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> opposition<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300085.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>\u00a0 Ivory Coast President Ouattara Seeks Fourth Term Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced his decision to run for a fourth term in the upcoming October election. The 83-year-old said his health was not an issue and his candidacy was driven by a need to &#8220;preserve national stability amid ongoing security and economic challenges&#8221;. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203571,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6183,6555,1218,11170,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-203570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-july","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\/203570","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=203570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}