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Ivory Coast

The Ivorian governments bid to impose a new leader on the National Union of Ivorian Journalists (UNJCI) has sparked protests over an unprecedented bid to impose control.  By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

Self-censorship, insecurity, financial squeeze: a press under pressure in Ivory Coast

Jun 10, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Journalists in Ivory Coast have raised the alarm about what they complain are government attempts to shackle their profe ...

May 23, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Buyers trudged through a muddy market in Abidjan, looking for the best-priced sheep to be sacrificed for Eid al-Adha, wi ...

May 16, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast's former president and opposition figure Laurent Gbagbo, who soon turns 81, was reappointed Friday as head o ...

Mar 24, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Cocoa beans dried on tarps in the sun in Aboisso town square in southeastern Ivory Coast before being returned to the wa ...

Mar 16, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Josy's life was turned upside down three years ago when she discovered that her husband had racked up crippling debts an ...

Mar 13, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast on Friday commemorated the 19 victims of a jihadist attack on a popular beach resort a decade ago. Three ...

Mar 13, 2026 | Ivory Coast

The Djidji Ayokwe talking drum , which was looted by French colonial troops in 1916 and taken to France, arrived back i ...

Mar 6, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she'd had enough. Despite years cultivating rubber trees on the plantation inh ...

Mar 4, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, the world 39;s leading cocoa producer, on Wednesday cut the price paid to its growers by nearly 60 percent ...

Feb 26, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Brazil has suspended the import of dried and fermented cocoa beans from the world's largest producer, Ivory Coast, where ...

Jan 26, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Laurent Kone's wattle-and-daub house, with its tarpaulin roof and no electricity, lies down a bumpy red-earth track in w ...

Jan 19, 2026 | Ivory Coast

At a warehouse in western Ivory Coast the backlog of cocoa beans waiting to be shipped has grown so big the storage site ...

Jan 16, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, German ethnologist Hans Himmelheber journeyed across Ivory Coast amassing a collection ...