UNOCI chief holds first meeting with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara
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 with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. Speaking after the encounter which lasted almost an hour, the chief of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) appealed [...]
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma departs for Guinea on a working trip within the Mano River Union mandate
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has departed Freetown for the Guinean capital, Conakry, for a one day working visit to hold mutual talks with President Alpha Konde, within the mandate of the Mano River Union (MRU). The visit is being made to further initiate bilateral talks between Heads of States of sister countries [...]
Laurent Gbagbo and his wife have been charged with economic crimes, aggravated theft and embezzlement of state funds in Ivory Coast
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 embezzlement of public funds and aggravated theft. Simplice Kouadio Koffi, the public prosecutor, said the former president, Laurent Gbagbo, is currently being detained in [...]
Reports of 26 extra-judicial killings in the Ivory Coast in the past four weeks
It is reported that there were 26 extrajudicial killings in the Ivory Coast in the past four weeks, mostly blamed on fighters who helped President Alassane Ouattara take power, the UN mission reported Thursday. The killings were reported between July 11 and August 10, the rights representative for the UN’s Ivory Coast mission, Guillaume Ngefa, [...]
President Alassane Ouattara extends a hand of reconciliation to former top Gbagbo military officers
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 Ouattara. A government delegation sent by Ouattara to neighbouring Ghana last week convinced Colonel Boniface Konan — a senior member of Gbagbo’s Defence and Security Forces and three other officers to go back home. Their [...]
Ivory Coast wants to become a major regional oil producing country
The government of Ivory Coast has said it plans to boost oil drilling by year’s end to become a major regional producer. ”We want to start drilling in seven wells by the end of the year to ensure a production of 300,000 barrels a day by 2020, up from 40,000 barrels now,” Adama Toungara, the new [...]
Presidential decree announced to set up Independent commission to investigate human rights abuses committed in Ivory Coast
President Alassane Ouattara is setting up an independent commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during Ivory Coast’s postelection crisis earlier this year. Government spokesman Bruno Kone read a presidential decree creating the commission, after a special Cabinet meeting. The decree gives the commission six months to present its findings. The commission will attempt to explain how and why [...]
Loyalists of former President Laurent Gbagbo no longer a threat in Ivory Coast
Groups loyal to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo are no longer a threat to peace and order in the West African nation, according to the chief of the U.N. Mission in the country. ”By and large, the ex pro-Gbagbo elements and their supporters are not likely to mount substantial challenges to law and order — a painful [...]
Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front is now a shadow of its former self
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 November’s disputed presidential poll, only the walls of its headquarters are standing following widespread looting during the fighting. And it suffered an even heavier blow Monday [...]
Laurent Gbagbo’s political party chief resigns
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 has also said he planned to join a new party. Koulibaly, the speaker of Ivory Coast’s national assembly who became interim head of the Ivorian People’s [...]
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