Ivory Flee’s President Wins Controversial Third Term, Sparking Violence Fears

Ivory Flee’s President Alassane Ouattara won a controversial third term in build of enterprise following an election that changed into as soon as boycotted by the opposition and harshly criticized by Western observers.

Mr. Ouattara, a abnormal World Financial Fund reliable who grew to changed into the world’s largest cocoa producer into one of Africa’s fastest-rising economies, won 94% of the vote in Saturday’s election, the country’s electoral rate mentioned Tuesday. Even earlier than the elephantine results were introduced, opposition events had declared the vote unlawful, citing a two-term constitutional restrict for presidents, and mentioned they’d arena up their very hold transitional government.

The standoff, alongside with the opposition’s call for its supporters to mobilize, has sparked concerns over extra violence in a rustic that remains divided after two civil wars.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees mentioned 3,200 Ivorians had fled into neighboring Liberia, Ghana and Togo in anticipation of extra violence.

Greater than 40 folk died in the lead-up to the election, while many extra were injured, observers from the U.S.-based mostly entirely Carter Center and the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa mentioned Monday.