Cote d’Ivoire in crucial polls

Ivorians will go to the polls Saturday in an election which promises to be one of the biggest challenges to political stability since the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis in that country. In what has been described as a controversial election, incumbent President Alassane Ouattara seeks a third term against opposition from three other candidates — former President Henry Konan Bedie, 86, leader of the Democratic Party of Cote d’Ivoire (PDCI), Pascal Affi Nguessan, 67, leader of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), formerly headed by President Laurent Gbagbo, and Kouadio Konan Bertin, 50, an independent candidate. Presidential election Originally, 44 candidates had filed nominations to contest the...