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A View from Afar<\/strong><\/p>\n On October 25, this year, Ivorians head to the polls in an election that\u2019s less about suspense \u2014 and more about soul-searching. President Alassane Ouattara, 82, is running for a controversial third term. Not because the rules invited him \u2014 but because he rewrote them.<\/p>\n A decade ago, Ouattara was the unifier: the calm, silver-haired economist from the IMF and World Bank who stepped into a nation shattered by civil war and Laurent Gbagbo\u2019s defiant exit. Back then, Gbagbo\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A View from Afar On October 25, this year, Ivorians head to the polls in an election that\u2019s less about suspense \u2014 and more about soul-searching. President Alassane Ouattara, 82, is running for a controversial third term. Not because the rules invited him \u2014 but because he rewrote them. A decade ago, Ouattara was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207730,"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":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,6126,1218,257,33947,254,7557,6599],"class_list":["post-207729","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-deliver","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-ouattaras","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-time"],"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\/207729","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=207729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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