{"id":4219,"date":"2014-07-18T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:09:45","slug":"frances-francois-hollande-starts-africa-tour-in-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/frances-francois-hollande-starts-africa-tour-in-ivory-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Francois Hollande starts Africa tour in Ivory Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French president has begun a three-day visit to West Africa likely to be dominated by security threats in the region and fostering economic ties.<\/p>\n<p>On his first stop in Ivory Coast, Francois Hollande is being accompanied by 50 French business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>France still has huge economic interests in Africa, and many French businesses operate in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>French-backed troops helped end a post-election conflict in the former French colony three years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ivory Coast News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28342991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">Ivory Coast<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French president has begun a three-day visit to West Africa likely to be dominated by security threats in the region and fostering economic ties. On his first stop in Ivory Coast, Francois Hollande is being accompanied by 50 French business leaders. France still has huge economic interests in Africa, and many French businesses operate [&hellip;]<\/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":[258,256,2890,2891,4713,1218,257,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-francois-hollande","tag-huge-economic-interests-in-africa","tag-ivory-coast","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","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=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/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=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}