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Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Kouassi, also known as JFK, a youth leader in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, has been convicted<\/a> and sentenced to a short prison term following public criticism of alleged irregularities in civil service recruitment.<\/p>\n On Monday, January 26, 2026, the Plateau Court in Abidjan sentenced<\/a> Kouassi, president of the Mouvement des jeunes de C\u00f4te d’Ivoire (MJCI), to 15 days’ imprisonment, eight months’ suspended imprisonment, and a fine of 500,000 CFA francs (about USD 830). Having already spent more than…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Kouassi, also known as JFK, a youth leader in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, has been convicted and sentenced to a short prison term following public criticism of alleged irregularities in civil service recruitment. On Monday, January 26, 2026, the Plateau Court in Abidjan sentenced Kouassi, president of the Mouvement des jeunes de C\u00f4te d’Ivoire (MJCI), to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222206,"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":[8956,258,256,6183,6555,6192,6978,1218,257,6499,6787,254,4375,6276],"class_list":["post-222205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-days","tag-detention","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-released","tag-sentenced","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west","tag-youth"],"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\/222205","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=222205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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