Ivorians head to the polls as divisions from Presidential vote linger

Ivorians at the polls this Saturday to elect the 255 members of Côte d’Ivoire’s National Assembly, in a vote shaped by deep political divisions.

The legislative elections come just two months after President Alassane Ouattara’s re-election, where he secured 90 percent of the vote, a result fiercely contested by the opposition, which denounced the exclusion of key figures following court rulings.

Those tensions have carried into…