{"id":9746,"date":"2011-12-09T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/cote-divoire-five-dead-in-ivory-coast-since-vote-campaign-began\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T13:32:12","slug":"cote-divoire-five-dead-in-ivory-coast-since-vote-campaign-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/cote-divoire-five-dead-in-ivory-coast-since-vote-campaign-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Five Dead in Ivory Coast Since Vote Campaign Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rnw180.png\" alt=\"Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" title=\"Visit Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>8 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Five people, including a candidate from the president&#8217;s party, have been killed in Ivory Coast since campaigning began five days ago for Sunday&#8217;s parliamentary elections, a junior minister said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dead were three people killed in a rocket attack in the south of the country on Wednesday, as well as a candidate from President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s Rally of Republicans who was burnt to death and a young villager, junior defence minister Paul Koffi Koffi said on public television.<\/p>\n<p>Koffi also said that some election candidates were being escorted by armed men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you do that.., it&#8217;s a militia. Once again the government calls on the candidates to be responsible. You cannot have armed men accompanying you on your campaign trail,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s poll is being held just a year after an election that brought the country back to the brink of war after former strongman Laurent Gbagbo disputed the results that gave victory to Ouattara.<\/p>\n<p>Gbagbo is now in custody at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity over the conflict that claimed about 3,000 lives. &#8211; <em>ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 8 December 2011 Five people, including a candidate from the president&#8217;s party, have been killed in Ivory Coast since campaigning began five days ago for Sunday&#8217;s parliamentary elections, a junior minister said Thursday. Among the dead were three people killed in a rocket attack in the south of the country on Wednesday, as well as a candidate from President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s Rally of Republicans who was burnt to death and a young villager, junior defence minister Paul Koffi Koffi said on public television. Koffi also said that some election candidates were being escorted by armed men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cote d&#039;Ivoire: Five Dead in Ivory Coast Since Vote Campaign Began - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/cote-divoire-five-dead-in-ivory-coast-since-vote-campaign-began\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cote d&#039;Ivoire: Five Dead in Ivory Coast Since Vote Campaign Began - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"8 December 2011 Five people, including a candidate from the president&#039;s party, have been killed in Ivory Coast since campaigning began five days ago for Sunday&#039;s parliamentary elections, a junior minister said Thursday. 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