{"id":203944,"date":"2025-08-04T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-an-electoral-puzzle-handling-cote-divoires-high-risk-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:36:58","slug":"cote-divoire-an-electoral-puzzle-handling-cote-divoires-high-risk-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-an-electoral-puzzle-handling-cote-divoires-high-risk-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: An Electoral Puzzle &#8211; Handling C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s High-Risk Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><em><em>President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s bid for a fourth term and the exclusion of key opponents are fuelling tensions ahead of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s October presidential election. With three months to go before the poll, the government and opposition can still take action to avoid repeating past mistakes.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">[Translation from French]<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\"><strong>What&#8217;s new?<\/strong> C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire will hold a presidential election in October. There has been no violence yet, but President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s decision to run a fourth time, the exclusion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040079.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>President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s bid for a fourth term and the exclusion of key opponents are fuelling tensions ahead of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s October presidential election. With three months to go before the poll, the government and opposition can still take action to avoid repeating past mistakes. [Translation from French] What&#8217;s new? C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire will hold a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203945,"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":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,10578,7239,15923,23124,1218,257,7517,22920,254],"class_list":["post-203944","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-divoires","tag-electoral","tag-handling","tag-highrisk","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-puzzle","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/203944","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=203944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}