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Tag Archives: ivory-coast

Alassane Ouattara - Ivory Coast President

Ivorians lose confidence in political parties

April 29, 2013 no comments
ABIDJAN , Apr 29 2013 (IPS) - Robbie Corey-Boulet - Last week’s local elections in Côte d’Ivoire were supposed to be a contest between members of the current governing coalition. But in municipal rac...
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN expert urges Côte d’Ivoire to boost democracy through human rights ...

March 20, 2013 no comments
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 20, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Côte d’Ivoire, Doudou Diène, urged the Ivorian au...
Charles Ble Goude

High-level allies of former president Gbagbo face extradition as Ivory...

February 8, 2013 no comments
ABIDJAN, Feb 8 2013 Robbie Corey-Boulet (IPS) - The extradition of high-level allies of former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo from Ghana back to their home country, including a most recent on...
West African diplomats  chat after an August Security Council meeting on the situation in Mali - Credit- UN Photo - Devra Berkowitz

U.N. debates intervention plan to deploy West African Peacekeeping tro...

September 27, 2012 no comments
WASHINGTON, Carey L. Biron - (IPS) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday began to debate a plan to deploy West African peacekeeping troops to tackle the six-month Islamist insurgency in ...
Coup Plotters

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...
Former Ivorian Minister Justine Kone Katinan

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 ...
Justin Kone Katinan - Arrested in Ghana

Former Ivorian Minister in Gbagbo’s government arrested in Ghana

August 29, 2012 2 comments
A former Minister in charge of Budget and Spokesman of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, Justin Kone Katinan has been arrested by the Ghanaian security on Friday 24th August, 2012 and is being...
ICC

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...
DUEKOUE CAMP in Ivory Coast

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 ...
School children in Ivory Coast

The ticket to an education in Côte d’Ivoire as authorities re-es...

March 27, 2012 no comments
ABIDJAN, Fulgence Zamblé (IPS) – The births of tens of thousands of children during Côte d’Ivoire’s eight-year rebellion were not formally recorded. Providing these children with birth ce...
African gumtree - Pterocarpus erinaceus - Marko Schmidt - Wikkicommons

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...
Alassane Ouattara - Ivory Coast President

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...
President Ernest Bai Koroma - In Guinea on a working MRU visit

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma departs for Guinea on a worki...

October 13, 2011 no comments
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, wit...
Gbagbo and wife Simone

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 ...

Reports of 26 extra-judicial killings in the Ivory Coast in the past f...

August 11, 2011 no comments
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 reporte...
President Ouattara - Reconciliation

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...
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