{"id":3436,"date":"2014-07-01T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T04:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T04:28:35","slug":"since-ouattara-took-over-the-ivory-coast-has-done-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/since-ouattara-took-over-the-ivory-coast-has-done-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Since Ouattara took over, the Ivory Coast has done well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Mr Ouattara took over, the Ivory Coast has done well. The economy is expected to grow in 2014 by more than 8% for the third year in a row. The African Development Bank is to reopen its headquarters in Abidjan after an 11-year exile in Tunisia. Calling for dialogue with the opposition, Mr Ouattara has freed hundreds of Mr Gbagbo\u2019s partisans who had been accused of post-election violence three years ago. Political tension seems to have cooled.<\/p>\n

But under the surface they still bubble. Hardliners in the opposition give the government headaches, most recently by boycotting a national census. Mr Ouattara has failed to reform the armed forces and police. Human-rights campaigners say that too few people, including supporters of Mr Ouattara, have been prosecuted for crimes of violence committed during the post-election mayhem…<\/p>\n

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Since Mr Ouattara took over, the Ivory Coast has done well. The economy is expected to grow in 2014 by more than 8% for the third year in a row. The African Development Bank is to reopen its headquarters in Abidjan after an 11-year exile in Tunisia. Calling for dialogue with the opposition, Mr Ouattara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,1921,1922,4713,1218,257,1920,254,1923,4692],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-development-bank","tag-crimes","tag-ivory-coast","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-ouattara","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence-committed","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}