By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Ivory Coast opposition leader Tidjane Thiam said on Wednesday he would fight on to run in the West African nation's presidential election due in October despite having been removed from the electoral roll.

Only a few hundred protesters turned up to a rally for the Ivory Coast's main opposition party on Thursday after its candidate, Tidjane Thiam, was banned from standing in the October 25

An Ivory Coast court’s decision to remove Tidjane Thiam from the voters’ roll effectively disqualified the former Credit Suisse chief executive officer from this year’s presidential election, raising the risk of political instability in the world’s biggest cocoa-producing nation.