{"id":211817,"date":"2025-10-30T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-lis-tightens-security-at-ivory-coast-border\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:00:50","slug":"cote-divoire-lis-tightens-security-at-ivory-coast-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-lis-tightens-security-at-ivory-coast-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: LIS Tightens Security At Ivory Coast Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Monrovia \u2014 <em>The Liberia Immigration Service (LIS) has strengthened security and increased manpower along the Liberia-Ivory Coast border to prevent potential cross-border disturbances and ensure the safety of residents in nearby communities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The move comes in the wake of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s recent presidential election, which has been marked by controversy and unrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Incumbent President Alassane Ouattara secured a fourth term with 89.77% of the vote, according to provisional results from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290364.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>Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia Immigration Service (LIS) has strengthened security and increased manpower along the Liberia-Ivory Coast border to prevent potential cross-border disturbances and ensure the safety of residents in nearby communities. The move comes in the wake of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s recent presidential election, which has been marked by controversy and unrest. Incumbent President Alassane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211818,"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":[258,256,1900,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,6559,1218,29637,257,4586,254,6846],"class_list":["post-211817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-lis","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tightens"],"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\/211817","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=211817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}