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Coffins of victims of the post-electoral crisis and armed conflict in Abidjan on October 13, 2011.  By Sia Kambou (AFP/File)

Militia Chief Suspected In I.coast Killings Arrested: Army

Sunday, May 19, 2013 ABIDJAN AFP - A militia chief in Ivory Coast, suspected of taking part in deadly post-election violence in 2011, was arrested Saturday in his western stronghold, a military source said.Amade Oueremi, the head of an armed group that for years has occupied the Mont Peko forest in western Ivory C ...
United Nations peacekeepers hold their position inside of the Akouedo military camp in Abidjan on August 6, 2012.  By Issouf Sanogo (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast wants UN drone border surveillance

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 UNITED NATIONS AFP - Ivory Coast asked the United Nations Tuesday to monitor its border with Liberia with drones to make up for the expected decline in the global bodys presence in the African country.Should a planned withdrawal of UN peacekeepers go into effect, Ivory Coast is seeking the d ...
Pro-Laurent Gbagbo militiamen patrol in the empty streets of Abidjan on March 31, 2011.  By Jean-Philippe Ksiazek (AFP/File)

I.Coast starts exhuming victims of post-election conflict

Thursday, April 04, 2013 ABIDJAN AFP - Ivory Coast on Thursday launched a massive operation to exhume the bodies of those killed during a violent post-election conflict which left some 3,000 dead by the time it ended in 2011.To this day, two years after this tragedy, a number of bodies and human remains still lie in ...
Contenders for the Miss Ivory Coast contest, on March 22, 2013.  By Sia Kambou (AFP)

Curvy or slender? The Ivory Coast beauty war

Saturday, March 30, 2013 ABIDJAN AFP - African curves or an international silhouette? On the airwaves and the catwalks of Ivory Coast, a war of words has broken out between admirers of voluptuous female figures and those who plump for a more streamlined, traditionally Western, shape.The young Ivorian singer Princ ...
Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on December 5, 2011.  By Peter Dejong (ANP/AFP/File)

Ex-president Gbagbo's party to boycott I.Coast local poll

Thursday, March 21, 2013 ABIDJAN AFP - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbos party announced Thursday it would boycott regional and local elections scheduled for April 21, saying the vote would not be fair.No member of the Ivorian Popular Front FPI should take part in any way in these elections, said the c ...
Didier Drogba, pictured in action for Galatasaray on March 12, 2013.  By Odd Andersen (AFP/File)

Drogba left out of Ivory Coast squad

Saturday, March 16, 2013 ABIDJAN AFP - Star striker Didier Drogba has been left out of the Ivory Coast squad for the March 23 World Cup qualifier against Gambia in Abidjan.Galatasarays Drogba was one of six players who featured at the Africa Cup of Nations this year overlooked for the game by coach Sabri Lamouchi. ...
A sign held by a victim of the 2010 crisis reads

I.Coast's Gbagbo tells ICC he 'fought for democracy'

Thursday, February 28, 2013 THE HAGUE AFP - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday told the International Criminal Court which is weighing whether to charge him with crimes against humanity that he had always been pro-democracy.All my life, I fought for democracy, Gbagbo told the court that will decide ...
Ivory Coast ex-leader Laurent Gbagbo at a pre-trial hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.  By Michael Kooren (Pool/AFP)

I.Coast ex-president Gbagbo at international court

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 THE HAGUE AFP - Laurent Gbagbos pre-trial hearing on charges of crimes against humanity opened at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, with the former Ivorian leader present.Presiding judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi opened the confirmation of charges hearing while Gbagbo, the first ...
Ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo sit on May 2, 2011 in Korhogo at the residence where he was under house arrest.  By Sia Kambou (AFP)

I.Coast ex-president Gbagbo present as ICC hearing opens

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 THE HAGUE AFP - Laurent Gbagbos pre-trial hearing on charges of crimes against humanity opened at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, with the former Ivorian leader present.Presiding judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi opened the confirmation of charges hearing while Gbagbo, the first ...
Supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo run away from police in Abidjan on February 16, 2013..  By Sia Kambou (AFP)

I.Coast's Gbagbo before International Criminal Court

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 THE HAGUE AFP - Ivorian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday faces International Criminal Court judges who will decide whether there is enough evidence to try him for masterminding a bloody election standoff two years ago.Presiding judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi is to open the hearings a ...
Supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo run away from police in Abidjan on February 16, 2013..  By Sia Kambou (AFP)

I.Coast's Gbagbo before ICC judges over poll bloodshed

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 THE HAGUE AFP - Ivorian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday faces International Criminal Court judges who will decide whether there is enough evidence to try him for masterminding a bloody election standoff two years ago.Presiding judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi is to open the hearings a ...
Supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo run away from police in Abidjan on February 16, 2013..  By Sia Kambou (AFP)

I.Coast's Gbagbo to face ICC over poll bloodshed

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 THE HAGUE AFP - Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday faces International Criminal Court judges who will decide if there is enough evidence to try him for masterminding a bloody election standoff two years ago.Gbagbo, 67, the first-ever former head of state to appear before the Ha ...
A woman walks up to the offices of the International Criminal Court in the Hague on July 1, 2002.  By Robin Utrecht (ANP/AFP/File)

Ivory Coast officially becomes member of ICC

Saturday, February 16, 2013 UNITED NATIONS AFP - Ivory Coast on Friday became a member of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where its former president is facing trial for alleged crimes against humanity.Ambassador Youssoufou Bamba formally turned in paperwork to the United Nations in New York showing the cou ...
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