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Nearly nine million Ivorians are eligible to vote on Saturday to elect their new president among five candidates, including incumbent head of state Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a fourth term in office. A key issue is voter turnout. <\/em><\/p>\n Voters are choosing between incumbent Alassane Ouattara<\/a>, Jean-Louis Billon, Simone Ehivet, former wife of Laurent Gbagbo, Ahoua Don Mello and Henriette Lagou.<\/p>\n The two main opposition leaders, Laurent Gbagbo<\/a> and Tidjane Thiam<\/a>, are absent from the race after their…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nearly nine million Ivorians are eligible to vote on Saturday to elect their new president among five candidates, including incumbent head of state Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a fourth term in office. A key issue is voter turnout. Voters are choosing between incumbent Alassane Ouattara, Jean-Louis Billon, Simone Ehivet, former wife of Laurent Gbagbo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211529,"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\/00671780:d3ff908b54e1039651be31bda5906dcf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,1218,257,8059,254],"class_list":["post-211528","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-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671780:d3ff908b54e1039651be31bda5906dcf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211528","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=211528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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