Agents of the Independent Electoral Commission count ballot papers for the municipal and regional elections in the Plateau business commune of Plateaux business district of Abidjan, on September 2, 2023.
Minister for women, Nasseneba Toure, was one leading government figure re-elected at Odienne in the northwest. The elections were the first since former president Laurent Gbagbo returned to Ivory Coast in June 2021 after being acquitted by the International Criminal Court on human rights charges linked to post-electoral violence in 2011.
Monitoring group Aube Nouvelle said it had registered some isolated altercations but overall the poll went off smoothly — in stark contrast to three years ago, when contested presidential elections won by Alassane Ouattara saw violence spark that led to 85 deaths.
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