{"id":211898,"date":"2025-10-30T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-ecowas-au-mission-hails-peaceful-cote-divoire-polls-despite-logistical-delays-and-low-turnout-as-incumbent-ouattara-declared-winner\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:02:02","slug":"west-africa-ecowas-au-mission-hails-peaceful-cote-divoire-polls-despite-logistical-delays-and-low-turnout-as-incumbent-ouattara-declared-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-ecowas-au-mission-hails-peaceful-cote-divoire-polls-despite-logistical-delays-and-low-turnout-as-incumbent-ouattara-declared-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ecowas-AU Mission Hails Peaceful C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Polls Despite Logistical Delays and Low Turnout As Incumbent Ouattara Declared Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire \u2014 The joint ECOWAS-African Union Election Observation Mission has lauded the people of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire for the peaceful conduct of the October 25, 2025 presidential election, despite noticeable logistical delays, low voter turnout, and limited representation of opposition agents at polling stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The mission, which was led by former Nigerian Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, described the exercise as generally transparent, calm, and professionally managed, noting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290296.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 The joint ECOWAS-African Union Election Observation Mission has lauded the people of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire for the peaceful conduct of the October 25, 2025 presidential election, despite noticeable logistical delays, low voter turnout, and limited representation of opposition agents at polling stations. The mission, which was led by former Nigerian Vice President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211899,"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":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,6583,6190,52734,6952,21332,1218,20030,6161,257,1920,6385,8059,254,13690,4375,7361],"class_list":["post-211898","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-declared","tag-delays","tag-ecowasau","tag-hails","tag-incumbent","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-logistical","tag-mission","tag-news","tag-ouattara","tag-peaceful","tag-polls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turnout","tag-west","tag-winner"],"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\/211898","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=211898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}