New York, February 24, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about politically motivated censorship in Ivory Coast after authorities banned international French broadcaster France 24 on Monday on bogus allegations of unprofessionalism over coverage of political unrest in the West African nation.
Speaking to Reuters today, Frank Anderson Kouassi, the president of Ivory [...]
$45 million in compensation is at stake, intended for about 30,000 victims of an oil-based sludge dumped off the coast of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast’s capital, in 2006 as thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement because of disagreement on payment disbursement amongst victim [...]
The delay in the publication of the provisional voters list in Ivory Coast may cause elections planned for November 29 to be postponed. There are fears that scrambling to make the November deadline will result in a flawed vote. The elections which have been planned since 2005 have been postponed several times as attempts are [...]
