{"id":203676,"date":"2025-07-31T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ouattara-to-seek-fourth-term-in-cote-divoire-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:29:52","slug":"cote-divoire-ouattara-to-seek-fourth-term-in-cote-divoire-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ouattara-to-seek-fourth-term-in-cote-divoire-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ouattara to Seek Fourth Term in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara will run for a fourth term in the October 2025 election, extending his time in office beyond previous pledges to step down<\/li>\n<li>The 83-year-old announced his candidacy on Tuesday, citing economic stability and the absence of strong opposition challengers<\/li>\n<li>Ouattara came to power in 2011 following a civil war triggered by former president Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s refusal to concede defeat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara will run for a fourth term in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507310238.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>TLDR Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara will run for a fourth term in the October 2025 election, extending his time in office beyond previous pledges to step down The 83-year-old announced his candidacy on Tuesday, citing economic stability and the absence of strong opposition challengers Ouattara came to power in 2011 following a civil war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203677,"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":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,3119,15935,1218,257,1920,6438,7745,254,7557],"class_list":["post-203676","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-election","tag-fourth","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-ouattara","tag-presidential","tag-seek","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\/203676","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=203676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}