{"id":212047,"date":"2025-10-31T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ouattara-wins-elected-fourth-time-as-ivory-coast-president\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:04:04","slug":"cote-divoire-ouattara-wins-elected-fourth-time-as-ivory-coast-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ouattara-wins-elected-fourth-time-as-ivory-coast-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ouattara Wins Elected Fourth Time As Ivory Coast President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Ivory Coast&#8217;s President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 per cent in a vote which his two greatest rivals were barred from, the electoral commission said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Nearly nine million voters were eligible to cast their ballot Saturday in the world&#8217;s top cocoa producer, which has resisted coups and jihadist attacks plaguing much of West Africa but which saw tensions soar and deadly violence in the run-up to the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Even before the provisional results&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290199.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>Ivory Coast&#8217;s President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 per cent in a vote which his two greatest rivals were barred from, the electoral commission said Monday. Nearly nine million voters were eligible to cast their ballot Saturday in the world&#8217;s top cocoa producer, which has resisted coups and jihadist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212048,"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":[258,256,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,10012,15935,6559,1218,257,1920,2450,254,6599,6552],"class_list":["post-212047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-elected","tag-fourth","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-ouattara","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-wins"],"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\/212047","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=212047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}