Ivory Coast votes for president in test of post-war stability
AARON ROSS, ANGE ABOA and LOUCOUMANE COULIBALY VOTING has started in Ivory Coast as President Alassane Ouattara seeks a third term in an election two rival candidates have urged their supporters to boycott. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. Picture: Flickr Former president Henri Konan Bedie Pascal Affi N'Guessan - Ivory Coast - Photo: Wikimedia Commons The streets of the commercial capital Abidjan were quiet and largely empty in contrast to the sometimes violent run-up to the election, which is seen as a test of stability in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and one of Africa's fastest-growing economies. In…