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People prepare to cast their ballot at a polling station in Cocody, a district of Abidjan, on March 24, 2018 during the first Senatorial elections of Ivory Coast. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

New I.Coast senate is launched despite opposition protests

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Ivory Coast's new senate took office on Thursday, defying opposition protests that the assembly was a costly rubber stam ...

AfDB To Host Breakfast Session On Africa Investment Forum In Abidjan

AfDB To Host Breakfast Session On Africa Investmen...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

When? Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The Ivorian Electricity Company (CIE) is using drones to revolutionise the inspection of its infrastructure. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

In Ivory Coast, 'drone academy' offers youth the c...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Drones have become my passion, says Noursely Doumbia, who holds a degree in electronics and is currently learning to p ...

The opposition had called for a reform of the commission and for all votes to be postponed. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast ruling coalition wins first senate ele...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Ivory Coast's ruling coalition won an overwhelming victory Saturday in the country's first senatorial elections, which w ...

A woman prepares her ballot at a polling station in Cocody, a district of Abidjan, on March 24, 2018 during the first senatorial elections in Ivory Coast. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast vote in first senate elections

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Ivory Coast voted Saturday in its first senatorial elections, boycotted by the opposition who have accused the electoral ...

Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer, but it exports most of the beans raw, meaning it doesn't capture any of the value of turning them into chocolate. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP/File)

$1bn World Bank loan to help I.Coast end raw deal ...

Friday, March 23, 2018

The World Bank will provide Ivory Coast $1 billion for development, in particular to help it get more value out of its a ...

Manchester City's Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure, seen here at a press conference in Kharkiv in December 2017, said he won't play for the Ivory Coast during the international break due to

Toure skips Ivory Coast return for 'family reasons...

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure said on Thursday he won't play for the Ivory Coast during the international break ...

Police dispersed tear gas and arrested around a dozen demonstrators who were heading towards the rally in the economic centre Abidjan. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast security forces stop opposition march

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Riot police in Ivory Coast on Thursday arrested protestors and fired teargas to prevent an opposition demonstration from ...

Despite halving the infant mortality rate in the last two decades, Ivory Coast still has a very high number of neonatal deaths. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Ivory Coast says infant mortality has halved in 20...

Monday, March 19, 2018

The infant mortality rate in Ivory Coast has halved in 20 years, the planning and development minister said Monday, poin ...

Former Ivory Coast defence chief Moise Lida Kouassi, a key ally of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo, is led away following his arrival in Abidjan in 2012 after being extradited from Togo. By HO (IVORIAN GOVERNMENT PRESS/AFP/File)

Defence minister for toppled Ivory Coast regime ja...

Friday, January 19, 2018

A former defence chief for the Ivory Coast's ousted leader was sentenced to 15 years on Thursday for conspiring against ...

Abehi was a right-hand man to former president Laurent Gbagbo, who was ousted in 2011 after a bloody post-electoral crisis.. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP/File)

Security aide in former Ivory Coast regime gets 10...

Friday, January 12, 2018

A key figure in the security apparatus that underpinned Ivory Coast's ousted leader was jailed for 10 years for taking p ...

The X-ray of an Ivory Coast woman arrested at Phuket International Airport on December 27, 2017, for smuggling cocaine. By ROYAL THAI POLICE (AFP)

Ivory Coast woman who swallowed over 1kg of cocain...

Friday, December 29, 2017

A 27-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast has been arrested on the Thai island of Phuket after an airport X-ray found mor ...

Former Ivorian minister for labour and public service, Hubert Oulaye, accused of complicity in the assassination of UN soldiers, hears the verdict in his trial in at the Assize Court in Abidjan on December 26, 2017. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivorian ex-minister convicted over attack that kil...

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

A former Ivorian minister was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for complicity in a 2012 attack in western Ivor ...

Ivory Coast boasts about 480,000 vehicles in circulation, the biggest in the region ahead of Senegal, but only about 20 to 30 percent of passenger cars are insured. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Digital car insurance launches in Ivory Coast

Friday, November 24, 2017

Ivory Coast has got its first 100-percent digital car insurance with the launch of an online service seeking to make hea ...

AfDB approves €72 million loan for radical upgrade of Tunisia’s digital capability

AfDB approves €72 million loan for radical upgrade...

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 10 November 2017 ndash; The Board of the African Development Bank Group has ...

AfDB approves US$ 25 million to Zambia National Building Society

AfDB approves US$ 25 million to Zambia National Bu...

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 10 November 2017 ndash; The Board of Directors of the African Development Ba ...

AfDB Group Approves €98m Loans And €17m Partial Risk Guarantee For Air Côte d’Ivoire

AfDB Group Approves €98m Loans And €17m Partial Ri...

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 8 October 2017 ndash; The AfDB Group 39;s Board of Directors has approved a tot ...

Four traffickers were caught with elephant tusks like these, as well as 46 elephant tails, coveted items that are the reason over 35,000 elephants are slaughtered each year. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Tusks and elephant tails seized in Ivory Coast: NG...

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Two tusks and 46 elephant tails have been seized in Ivory Coast, activists said Tuesday, adding that a customs officer a ...

Wilfried Zaha has never played for the Ivory Coast, which he left with his family when he was just four. By Ian KINGTON (AFP/File)

Zaha ready for Ivory Coast do-or-die World Cup bow

Friday, November 3, 2017

Crystal Palace striker Wilfried Zaha will make his long-awaited debut for Ivory Coast in a do-or-die World Cup qualifier ...

The Soubre dam is to boost Ivory Coast's power capacity while helping it reach emissions goals. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast inaugurates huge China-funded dam

Thursday, November 2, 2017

President Alassane Ouattara on Thursday inaugurated a huge Chinese-funded dam in southern Ivory Coast designed to boost ...

Flora Doume, 20, hopes for a normal life after surgery in Ivory Coast to repair her face ravaged by noma, a bacterial disease that devours lips, flesh and muscle. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

Hope for noma disease victims left without faces i...

Friday, October 27, 2017

For 17 of her 20 years, Flora Doume has hidden from the world. Now she nervously waits for the operation to repair her r ...

4 die as French army-chartered plane crashes off I.Coast

4 die as French army-chartered plane crashes off I...

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - Four Moldovan nationals were killed on Saturday when a transport plane chartered by the French army cras ...

An Antonov cargo plane that crashed off Ivory Coast, killing four, was chartered by the French army as part of the anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane, military sources said. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

Crashed Ivory Coast plane chartered by French army...

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - An Antonov cargo plane that crashed off Ivory Coast Saturday, killing four, was chartered by the French ...

Abidjan's Museum of Civilisations, a showcase of African art, is staging its first exhibition after renovation. The museum was hit in a looting spree during Ivory Coast's period of turmoil. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP)

I.Coast's African art museum gets new lease of lif...

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - It has been buffeted by the pendulum swing of domestic politics and suffered looting that left it withou ...

Ivory Coast is the world's top cocoa producer and the industry accounts for 15 percent of its GDP. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

I.Coast freezes cocoa farmer prices due to falling...

Sunday, October 1, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower, on Sunday set its minimum rate for farmers at 700 CFA francs ...

Visitors gather around a chocolate fountain at the opening of the fourth national cocoa and chocolate days in Abidjan. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

Ivory Coast produces record cocoa crop

Friday, September 29, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - The cocoa crop of Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer, increased 28.5 percent to a record 2.15 mil ...

Wilfried Bony, pictured on September 16, 2017, has not featured for Ivory Coast since the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. By Ian KINGTON (IKIMAGES/AFP/File)

Bony returns to Ivory Coast squad

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - Wilfried Bony has been recalled to the Ivory Coast squad for next week's crucial 2018 World Cup qualifie ...

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