The vote will be held without the participation of leading opposition party CHADEMA, which was disqualified in April after failing to sign the electoral code of conduct as part of its call for electoral reforms.
The Electoral Commission has confirmed that 17 presidential candidates have been cleared to contest.
President Touadera, first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, declared his intention to run again in late July.
The unrest comes as the country prepares for elections on 25 October. Court rulings have excluded several major opposition figures, including former president Laurent Gbagbo of the African People’s Party (PPA-CI) and Tidjane Thiam of the PDCI-RDA.
Ouattara won a third term in 2020 after the constitution was changed to reset the presidential term limit. He had said he was not going to run again, but he changed his position following the death of his hand-picked successor, Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly.
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