Ivory Coast vote count begins after divisive legislative elections

Vote counting is underway in Ivory Coast following legislative elections to choose the country’s 255 members of the National Assembly, a vote shaped by deep political divisions and lingering tensions from the recent presidential poll.

The parliamentary elections come just two months after President Alassane Ouattara secured a second term with more than 90 percent of the vote. That landslide victory was strongly contested by the…