AfricaNews Monitoring Team
Ivory Coast awaited results from its first parliamentary election for a decade, with officials saying a boycott by the opposition had done little to disrupt voting in the West African nation. The election results from Sunday's vote would be known by Tuesday, according to election officials.
"Overall, the election took place peacefully in polling stations visited in the district of Abidjan and the interior (of the country)," the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Ivory Coast, Bert Koenders, said in a statement.
The election was boycotted by the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo, who is in The Hague facing war crimes charges, over allegations of unfair treatment of his supporters.
Gbagbo's party, the Ivorian Popular Front party, has accused the electoral commission of bias in favour of the current President, Alassane Ouattara.
It also accuses the army of intimidating supporters during the campaign.
Five million people were eligible to vote but the party and nearly 1,000 candidates stood for election to 255 posts.
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