More than eight million people are registered to vote in Ivory Coast's presidential election. Photo: AP PHOTO

Ivory Coast is voting in a presidential election, with incumbent and strong favourite Alassane Ouattara, 83, claiming credit for almost 15 years of economic growth and relative stability while hinting it will be his final campaign.

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A former international banker and deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Ouattara took power in 2011 after a four-month civil war that killed some 3000 people.

The war was triggered by his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo's refusa

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