Alassane Ouattara has been inaugurated for a controversial fourth term as Ivory Coast's president following a disputed election.

In Yopougon, a popular district of Abidjan, the former First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo, held a campaign rally this Wednesday, October 22, focused on mobilizing women.

President Alassane Ouattara has called on the country’s youth to vote in large numbers in the upcoming presidential election, touting himself as the candidate most committed to their welfare

As tension continues to mount in Ivory Coast ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, a gendarme has been shot and killed while on patrol in the south of the country.

President Alassane Ouattara is running for a fourth term in office in the election due to take place on 25 October.

An August march in Abidjan saw thousands of people from different political parties march against President Ouattara’s fourth term bid. Authorities say Saturday’s march was banned to maintain public order

Former President Laurent Gbagbo urged his supporters to oppose a 'fourth term' for the Ivory Coast's incumbent president.

Former President Laurent Gbagbo urged his supporters to oppose a 'fourth term' for the Ivory Coast's incumbent president.

Just a week after the Ivorian president announced his intention to run for a controversial fourth term this October, supporters and members of his administration gathered in the central city of Bouaké to mark the country’s 65th...

Cote d’Ivoire’s presidential race is heating up with former minister Ahoua Don Mello announcing his candidacy for the October vote. Mello called it a 'precautionary candidacy' intended to fill the void after Gbagbo was barred from standing.

The government says more than 80 people were killed after months of ethnic and political violence ahead of last month’s election.

Ivorian prosecutors are pursuing ‘terrorism’ charges against more than a dozen opposition leaders who boycotted the October 31 vote.

Many Ivorians fear the recent unresolved killings are responsible for the climate of fear and uncertainty in the country.

Rival factions have been fighting since weekend elections that brought President Alassane Ouattara back to power.

Trouble brews in Ivory Coast ahead of this week's presidential election.

The country was seen as the best business destination in the region, but the upcoming election has sparked fears that political rivalries could again boil over into violence.

Coulibaly's death throws Ivory Coast into uncertainty as he is also the ruling RHDP's presidential candidate.

Gbagbo who ruled Ivory Coast from 2000 until he was forced from power in 2011 had ran to the continental court to challenge his disqualification from seeking the presidency over a criminal conviction

A vote to name the party's new leader was held days after he resigned from the post in a move aimed at bypassing his ineligibility.

CLEAN: Rival Ivory Coast regimes on collision course

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