{"id":211230,"date":"2025-10-25T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-young-voters-in-cote-divoire-want-jobs-change-but-most-of-all-peace\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:51:51","slug":"cote-divoire-young-voters-in-cote-divoire-want-jobs-change-but-most-of-all-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-young-voters-in-cote-divoire-want-jobs-change-but-most-of-all-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Young Voters in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Want Jobs, Change &#8211; but Most of All, Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire \u2014 <em>\u00a0As Ivorians head to the polls on Saturday, with their 83-year-old incumbent president seeking a fourth term, young people in the country spoke to RFI about the frustrations of living in a country with a healthy economy but a lack of opportunities. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidence.ci\/en\/chairmanship\/the-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Alassane Ouattara<\/a> has been in power since 2011, having changed the constitution in 2016 to remove presidential term limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">While the former International Monetary Fund economist has been credited with keeping&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230308.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>Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire \u2014 \u00a0As Ivorians head to the polls on Saturday, with their 83-year-old incumbent president seeking a fourth term, young people in the country spoke to RFI about the frustrations of living in a country with a healthy economy but a lack of opportunities. President Alassane Ouattara has been in power since 2011, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211231,"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\/00151275:c43313f591089574ab4ec0e5ad2c7b6c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,7796,5958,6183,6555,5959,1218,6643,257,6157,254,7243,7720],"class_list":["post-211230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voters","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00151275:c43313f591089574ab4ec0e5ad2c7b6c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211230","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=211230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}