Africa: Ivory Coast

The authorities have already closed shops selling non-essential items as part of measures to limit the spread of the virus. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP)

Crowd In Ivory Coast Destroys Coronavirus Test Centre

Apr 6, 2020

Residents in a working-class district of the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan on Sunday destroyed a coronavirus testing c ...

Follow my lead: King Nanan Ako Ako Omer at a meeting with advisers on the coronavirus pandemic. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP)

Kings and chiefs fight coronavirus in Ivory Coast

Mar 30, 2020

Good day, this message is about the coronavirus. It is a very dangerous disease, warns a voice relayed by loudspeakers ...

President Alassane Ouattara had previously kept Ivorians guessing over his political future. By Ludovic MARIN (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast president rules out running for third ...

Mar 6, 2020

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Thursday he would not run in October's election, ending months of specul ...

Ivory Coast president says will not run for third ...

Mar 5, 2020

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Thursday he would not run in October's election, ending months of specul ...

The scaly mammal -- listed as threatened with extinction -- is a traditional delicacy across China and much of southeast Asia. By ROSLAN RAHMAN (AFP/File)

I.Coast burns 3 tonnes of pangolin scales

Mar 3, 2020

Ivory Coast officials on Tuesday burnt three tonnes of scales of the pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on Earth. T ...

Participants and officials in a group photograph

ISMI 2nd Training For 20 Fisheries Inspectors End ...

Feb 14, 2020

The Interregional Institute for Maritime Security (ISMI) has trained some fishery officers to fight Illegal, Unre ...

ISMI Holds Fishery Officer Level 2 Training For In...

Feb 9, 2020

It is usually estimated that in the Gulf of Guinea, 40% to 60% of the fish caught is caught illegally. The shortfall ...

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo (C) has asked the ICC for unconditional release following his acquittal last year. By Jerry LAMPEN (ANP/AFP)

I.Coast ex-president wants 'unconditional release'...

Feb 6, 2020

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday asked the International Criminal Court for his unconditional rel ...

US indicts Malian over deadly 2016 attacks in Ivor...

Jan 17, 2020

The US Justice Department unveiled murder and conspiracy charges Thursday against a Malian who played a central role i ...

Issiaka Ouattara was a key figure in Ivory Coast's rebellion -- he was later named deputy chief of the elite Republic Guard. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP)

Former I.Coast rebel leader dies in New York

Jan 6, 2020

Issiaka Ouattara, a key figure in the years-long unrest that gripped Ivory Coast at the start of the century, has died i ...

Newspaper in Abidjan close to the FPI party founded by former president Laurent Gbagbo, reading

I.Coast ex-political leader Ble Goude says sentenc...

Dec 31, 2019

Former Ivory Coast political leader Charles Ble Goude said Monday he had been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in priso ...

Former Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro said he would organise 'political resistance' from abroad against President Alassane Ouattara. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

I.Coast ex-rebel vows to organise 'political resis...

Dec 29, 2019

Former rebel leader and would-be Ivory Coast presidential candidate Guillaume Soro said he would organise political res ...

Guillaume Soro is hoping to run in the 2020 election in Ivory Cost. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast accuses ex-rebel chief Soro of plottin...

Dec 26, 2019

Ivory Coast 39;s state prosecutor said Thursday that former rebel leader and presidential candidate Guillaume Soro ...

Ivory Coast's rubber plantations are being accused of damaging the environment and worsening food security. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Changing times put I.Coast's rubber industry under...

Dec 25, 2019

A decade after rubber was heavily promoted as a goldmine for Ivory Coast's cocoa-dependent economy, planters are under p ...

GPS members clashed with police outside party headquarters on Monday. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast accused of 'brutality' by presidential...

Dec 24, 2019

An Ivorian former rebel leader who hopes to stand for president next year denounced on Tuesday unacceptable brutality ...

In Abidjan, security forces in uniform and plain clothes stormed Soro's GPS headquarters. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast issues warrant for ex-rebel chief Soro...

Dec 24, 2019

Ivory Coast prosecutors on Monday issued an arrest warrant for presidential candidate Guillaume Soro who aborted a plann ...

Tensions in Ivory Coast as ex-rebel chief's return...

Dec 24, 2019

Ivory Coast presidential candidate Guillaume Soro's planned return home was aborted on Monday as security forces waited ...