
Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 percent, the electoral commission said on Monday evening, in a vote which his two greatest rivals were barred from.
Nearly nine million voters were eligible to cast their ballot Saturday in the world's top cocoa producer, which has resisted coups and jihadist attacks plaguing much of west Africa but which saw tensions soar and deadly violence in the run-up to the election.