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Having emerged as the leader of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire in April 2011, following bloody post-electoral violence that cost 3,000 lives, President Alassane Ouattara is preparing to seek a fourth mandate ahead of presidential elections in October 2025. His third term, which began in 2020, was already a source of controversy, judged as anti-constitutional by the opposition and marred by deadly intercommunal violence in multiple cities across the country.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Having emerged as the leader of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire in April 2011, following bloody post-electoral violence that cost 3,000 lives, President Alassane Ouattara is preparing to seek a fourth mandate ahead of presidential elections in October 2025. His third term, which began in 2020, was already a source of controversy, judged as anti-constitutional by the opposition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207256,"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\/00670446:86be5d032b780bd52f9ee272943c1fee:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,12702,5958,6183,6555,5959,15935,1218,257,1920,7904,254,7557],"class_list":["post-207255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alassane","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-fourth","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-ouattara","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670446:86be5d032b780bd52f9ee272943c1fee:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207255","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=207255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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