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Ouattara’s fourth term bid met with resistant protest

Andrew Mbeki August 10, 2025

Ivory Coast Thousands of Ivorians took to the streets in Abidjan, the capital of the West African nation, to protest against the exclusion of opposition leaders from the upcoming presidential election. Ivory Coast, the biggest economy of francophone West Africa, is due to hold a presidential

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Ex president Gbagbo form a united opposition front in Ivory Coast

Saad Huzaifa June 21, 2025

Ivory Coast The two opposition parties excluded from the forthcoming presidential election in Ivory Coast have formed an alliance demanding to be allowed to participate in the polls. The alliance aims to demand that its leaders, Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, be allowed to run in the next presidential election and that other opposition candidates […]