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Three arrested in Ghana for allegedly plotting a coup against Ivory Co...

September 19, 2012 no comments

Security in Ghana has nabbed three men for allegedly trying to buy arms to execute a diabolic plan of overthrowing the government of Cote d’lvoire, where a post-election clash claimed thousands of li...

Court refuses to grant former Ivorian Minister Justine Kone Katinan ba...

September 7, 2012 no comments

Justine Kone Katinan, a former Ivorian minister in Laurent Gbagbo’s administration who has been arrested by the Ghanaian security and is being held by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has ...

ICC denies Laurent Gbagbo pre-trial release

July 22, 2012 no comments

According to the ruling released by the ICC on Thursday, Judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi termed the ex-president for Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo as ‘a big risk to be given a release’ taking into co...

7 perish in an attack at a U.N Protected zone in West Ivory Coast

July 21, 2012 no comments

The United Nations have condemned the latest attacks which rocked the U.N protected zone for displaced persons camping in Western Ivory Coast. The angry youths are said to have killed at least seven ...

The illegal logging and sale of wood from the African gum tree is expo...

February 26, 2012 no comments

ABIDJAN, Fulgence Zamblé (IPS) – Environmental groups in Côte d’Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of wood from the African gum tree is exposing the north of the country to the encroaching...

UNOCI chief holds first meeting with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ou...

November 8, 2011 no comments

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, November 8, 2011 – African Press Organization (APO) — The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, on Tuesday met...

Laurent Gbagbo and his wife have been charged with economic crimes, ag...

August 21, 2011 no comments

Laurent Gbagbo, the former President of the Ivory Coast in West Africa has been charged to court along with his wife, Simone, by the country’s Public prosecutors with economic crimes including ...

President Alassane Ouattara extends a hand of reconciliation to former...

July 30, 2011 no comments

President Laurent Gbagbo’s top military officers have been urged to returned to Ivory Coast Friday from exile in Ghana in a ‘reconciliation’ move by the new government of Alassane O...

Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front is now a shadow of...

July 13, 2011 no comments

It seems Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front (FPI) is now a shadow of its former self. After a decade in power and a four-month battle for power in Abdijan following last NovemberR...

Laurent Gbagbo’s political party chief resigns

July 11, 2011 no comments

Mamadou Koulibaly, the interim head of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo’s party, has announced that he was breaking with the political faction because they  refused to accept change and ...

Ivory Coast issues international arrest warrant for Charles Ble Goude ...

July 1, 2011 no comments

The West African State of Ivory Coast has issued international arrest warrants for Charles Ble Goude and other close aides of former president Laurent Gbagbo, the Abidjan prosecutor said Friday. R...

Alassane Ouattara inaugurated President of Ivory Coast

May 21, 2011 1 comment

World leaders began arriving in Ivory Coast’s administrative capital Saturday for the presidential inauguration, a ceremony that will mark the return of constitutional order and the end of a po...

Alassane Outtara is proclaimed President by court in Ivory Coast

May 5, 2011 no comments

The highest court in Ivory Coast has publicly reversed course  by proclaiming Alassane Ouattara president, bringing the country full circle five months after a disputed vote which nearly dragged the ...

Was renegade warlord Ibrahim ‘IB’ Coulibaly assassinated i...

April 29, 2011 no comments

Ibrahim IB Coulibaly, the renegade warlord who made no secret of his presidential ambitions, said he was being targeted for assassination just two days before he died this week. A few days earlier, d...

Ivory Coast’s fragile peace is under threat by feuding warlords

April 26, 2011 no comments

A year-old feud between rival warlords came to a head as volleys of gunshots erupted again in Abidjan that threatensIvory Coast’s fragile peace. It is unclear if technocrat President Alassane O...

“Street General” Charles Ble Goude captured in Ivory Coast...

April 15, 2011 no comments

ABIDJAN, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Ivory Coast’s slow recovery after four months of bloodshed gained pace Friday as Alassane Ouattara’s victorious regime captured ousted strongman Laur...