{"id":206816,"date":"2025-09-11T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-activist-arrested-after-urging-protests-ahead-of-key-election-ruling\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:10:05","slug":"west-africa-activist-arrested-after-urging-protests-ahead-of-key-election-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-activist-arrested-after-urging-protests-ahead-of-key-election-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Activist Arrested After Urging Protests Ahead of Key Election Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Ivorian political activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrique-sur7.fr\/cote-divoire-arrestation-dibrahim-zigui-militant-ppa-ci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibrahim Zigui was arrested<\/a> on September 1, 2025, after urging supporters of the opposition PPA-CI party to prepare for protests ahead of the Constitutional Council&#8217;s ruling on who qualifies to appear on the presidential ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Relatives <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/reel\/2303831800079240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said armed men stormed Zigui&#8217;s home<\/a> in Abidjan, ransacked it, and drove him to an unknown destination. Since then, both <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/share\/p\/14JbJpVYRp9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his family and political allies<\/a> have received no information about his whereabouts, and the authorities have not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110068.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>Ivorian political activist Ibrahim Zigui was arrested on September 1, 2025, after urging supporters of the opposition PPA-CI party to prepare for protests ahead of the Constitutional Council&#8217;s ruling on who qualifies to appear on the presidential ballot. Relatives said armed men stormed Zigui&#8217;s home in Abidjan, ransacked it, and drove him to an unknown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206817,"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":[8956,258,256,7019,4304,6183,6555,3119,1218,7274,257,5253,7870,254,17251,4375],"class_list":["post-206816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-arrested","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-election","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-key","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urging","tag-west"],"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\/206816","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=206816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}