Security Updates

Ivory Coast is set to hold its presidential election on Saturday 31 October. Due to a call for civil disobedience by opposition leaders, unrest is anticipated across the country in the lead up, during and after the election.

On 24 October, the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) declared President Alpha Condé the winner of the 18 October presidential election, confirming that the incumbent won an absolute majority in the first round of voting.

Polls closed and vote counting began in Guinea on Sunday evening following a largely peaceful day, with voters deciding whether to give 82-year-old President Alpha Condé a controversial third term in office, which was made possible by a constitutional change in March 2020.