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Demonstrators wave the national flag and hold a banner of PPA-CI party leader Laurent Gbagbo during a protest in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Diomande Ble Blonde)

Thousands in the Ivory Coast protest the exclusion of opposition leaders from election

By Toussaint Ngotta - Associated Press

FILE - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara arrives at the Seoul airport in Seongnam, South Korea, for the 2024 South Korea-Africa Summit, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Ivory Coast opposition denounces ‘arbitrary arrest’ of 6 party members

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

FILE - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara arrives at the Seoul airport in Seongnam, South Korea, for the 2024 South Korea-Africa Summit, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, file)

Ivory Coast’s president will seek fourth term after changing constitution to remove term limits

By Ope Adetayo, Toussaint Ngotta and Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

FILE - Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Credit Suisse, speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

A court in Ivory Coast removes a former Credit Suisse CEO from the presidential ballot

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FILE - President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, according to a senior public official. The presidency’s secretary general Abdourahmane Cissé said in a statement Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 that Prime Minister Patrick Achi was removed alongside the members of the government after the president signed a decree terminating their roles in exercising his constitutional powers. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)

Ivory Coast’s president removes the prime minister and dissolves the government in a major reshuffle

By Toussaint N'gotta - Associated Press

Ivory Coast’s ex-president and ally are free to return home

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is sworn in for a third term as President in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday Dec. 14, 2020. Ouattara, who received some 94.3% percent of the vote, had been expected to easily win the election after the leading opposition figures called on their supporters to stay home. (Sia Kambu/Pool via AP)

Ivory Coast President Ouattara inaugurated for third term

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Ivory Coast ex-president plans to return home from exile

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA - Associated Press

Policemen walk past a burning barricade during a protest after the security forces blocked the access to the house of the former president Henri Konan Bedie, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Ivory Coast's electoral commission said Tuesday that President Alassane Ouattara had overwhelmingly won a third term in office after his two main opponents boycotted the election and called his candidacy illegal. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivory Coast’s Soro calls on military to disobey president

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Street vendors use parasols reading &quot;Abobo ADOland&quot; in reference to the Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, who is known as ADO, at Abobo neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. International election observers in Ivory Coast said Monday that voter turnout was &quot;extremely low&quot; in parts of the country after leading opposition candidates called for a boycott to protest President Alassane Ouattara's bid for a controversial third term. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivory Coast’s Ouattara wins 3rd term, amid rising tensions

By KRISTA LARSON and TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

People cross a street at Blockhaus neighborhood during the dusk in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Ivory Coast residents braced for more unrest Sunday as election officials began releasing the first results from the country's presidential election and opponents of President Alassane Ouattara stepped up their criticism of his quest for a third term. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Election observers cite low turnout in Ivory Coast poll

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

A woman sells her goods at a local market in Abobo neighborhood, suburbs of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Ivory Coast's main opposition parties boycotted the presidential vote on Saturday, and asserted that at least a dozen people had died in election day clashes as incumbent leader Alassane Ouattara sought to be elected for a controversial third term in office. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivorians brace for unrest, await results of tense election

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

A woman sits next her goods to sale on a street market in Bonoua, in the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Opposition activists are threatening to block access to polling stations Saturday in an effort to disrupt the presidential election in Ivory Coast, where incumbent Alassane Ouattara is seeking a controversial third term after nearly a decade in power. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivory Coast opposition asserts 12 dead in election violence

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Supporters of the presidential candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin, dance over a sound truck during the final campaign rally in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. Bertin, known as KKB, has presented his candidacy as an independent candidate for the upcoming Oct. 31 election, and said he would not join the boycott proposed by two main opponents of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ivory Coast tensions rise as president seeks 3rd term

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Demonstrator opposed to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara running for a third term confront riot police in Abidjan Thursday Aug. 13, 2020. Ouattara announced earlier that he had accepted the ruling party's nomination and will run for a third presidential term in Octobre. (AP Photo/Diomande Ble Blonde)

Opposition marches against Ivory Coast president’s candidacy

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Ivory Coast president to run for 3rd term amid objections

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Ivory Coast vice president resigns citing personal reasons

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Ivory Coast president says he will not run for re-election

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo enters the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, where judges were expected to issue rulings on requests by Gbagbo and ex-government minister Charles Ble Goude to have their prosecutions thrown out for lack of evidence. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

ICC judges acquit former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Ivory Coast’s president grants amnesty to former 1st lady

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