Africa: Ivory Coast

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Ivory Coast pays tribute after PM's sudden death

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The West African state of Ivory Coast on Tuesday bid an emotional farewell to late Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, ...

A ceremony was held for the soldiers killed during an attack in Kafolo on June 11. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

ICoast creates military zone after jihadist attack

Jul 14, 2020

Ivory Coast has created a special military zone in the north of the country, the government said Monday, less than a mon ...

Resignation: Ivory Coast's vice president, Daniel Kablan Duncan. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan qu...

Jul 13, 2020

Ivory Coast's Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has stepped down, the presidency said on Monday, an announcement that ...

Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, whose death has stoked fears of political turbulence. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast stunned after PM's sudden death

Jul 9, 2020

The West African state of Ivory Coast was plunged into disarray on Thursday after the sudden death of its prime minister ...

Ivory Coast Prime Minister and the ruling party's candidate in October's presidential election Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast PM and presidential candidate Coulibal...

Jul 9, 2020

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was the ruling party's candidate for October's presidential electio ...

Guillaume Soro was an ally of President Alassane Ouattara, whom he helped to power during the post-electoral crisis in 2010. By Lionel BONAVENTURE (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast city holds out hope for exiled preside...

Jul 6, 2020

Guillaume Soro, a former rebel leader and candidate in Ivory Coast's October presidential election, has been forced into ...

Ivory Coast soldiers carry coffins and pictures of their comrades killed in a brazen jihadist attack last month. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast honours soldiers killed in jihadist at...

Jul 2, 2020

Ivory Coast on Thursday paid tribute to soldiers killed in a jihadist attack last month that has shaken the country, as ...

Ferkessedougou sits at a major crossroad with direct routes to border crossings into Mali and Burkina Faso. By Issouf SANOGO (AFP)

An Ivory Coast city on the front line, and afraid

Jun 30, 2020

Residents of Ferkessedougou, a commercial hub in northern Ivory Coast, are shaken by this month's brazen jihadist attack ...

The floods in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan flipped cars and destroyed houses, then were gone as quickly as they came. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Flash flooding kills three in Ivory Coast

Jun 26, 2020

Torrential rains turned the streets of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan into rivers on Thursday, flooding homes, flipping ...

Experts fear that the jihadist revolt in the Sahel could spread to coastal states on the Gulf of Guinea. By Ludovic MARIN (POOL/AFP)

Ivory Coast says it has captured jihadist leader b...

Jun 22, 2020

Ivory Coast said Monday it had captured a jihadist who led a deadly attack on a frontier post this month and arrested a ...

Chief ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda formally appealed the trial judges' decision in October. By EVA PLEVIER (ANP/AFP/File)

ICC judges erred by acquitting Ivory Coast's Gbagb...

Jun 22, 2020

International Criminal Court judges made fundamental and serious errors when they cleared former Ivory Coast president ...

Appeals judges will hear arguments by the ICC's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, pictured here in July 2019. By EVA PLEVIER (ANP/AFP/File)

ICC prosecutor appeals acquittal of Ivory Coast's ...

Jun 22, 2020

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor will try Monday to overturn last year's shock acquittal of former Ivory Co ...

People stand near a suspended railway track. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Thirteen killed in Ivory Coast landslip, many miss...

Jun 19, 2020

Thirteen people died Thursday while others including children were missing and feared dead in a mudslide which flattened ...

Director Alex Ogou says the brutal world of 'Cacao' can be found anywhere where predators fight over natural resources. By Issouf SANOGO (AFP)

Aiming big: Ivory Coast's 'Dallas' pitches for Afr...

Jun 17, 2020

The stakes are big, and so are the egos. Two clans, the Desvas and the Ahiteys, are fighting it out for control of th ...

WACSI Strengthens The Communication Skills Of CSOs...

Jun 15, 2020

Accra, Ghana - The civil society sector has been crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby reducing civil society organ ...

Security analysts have long worried that a jihadist revolt in the Sahel that began in Mali in 2012 is spreading towards coastal states on the Gulf of Guinea. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

About 10 dead in jihadist attack on I.Coast border...

Jun 11, 2020

Dozens of suspected jihadists attacked a frontier post on Ivory Coast's border with Burkina Faso before dawn on Thursday ...

Presidential contender: Ivorian Popular Front leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP/File)

Former Ivory Coast premier announces bid for presi...

Jun 11, 2020

Former Ivorian prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan says he will make a run for the presidency in upcoming elections, in ...

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