{"id":94251,"date":"2020-09-28T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94251"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:14:46","slug":"un-envoy-calls-for-peaceful-ivory-coast-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94251","title":{"rendered":"UN envoy calls for peaceful Ivory Coast elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/UN-envoy-calls-for-peaceful-Ivory-Coast-elections-1070962?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/681\/68137397.295.jpg\" alt=\"There has been tension in the country ahead of the 31 October polls (Reuters)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>There has been tension in the country ahead of the Oct 31 polls <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>ABIDJAN, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The special UN envoy for West Africa has urged peaceful elections in Ivory Coast at the end of a week-long visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohamed Ibn Chambas met President Alassane Ouattara who is running for a third term after his preferred successor died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ouattara&#8217;s candidacy has caused tension in the country and led to protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elections are scheduled for Oct 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chambas also met three of the president&#8217;s challengers, electoral body officials and civil society representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged all actors to ensure a peaceful and inclusive election and respect human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivory Coast&#8217;s main presidential election challenger, Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9, called for a campaign of civil disobedience to stop the president from seeking a third term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several candidates including former President Laurent Gbagbo and former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro have been barred from running because of previous convictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 10 people have been killed since riots broke out last month after President Ouattara announced his candidacy. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been tension in the country ahead of the Oct 31 polls ABIDJAN, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The special UN envoy for West Africa has urged peaceful elections in Ivory Coast at the end of a week-long visit. Mohamed Ibn Chambas met President Alassane Ouattara who is running for a third term after his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":94252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}