Polls are opening slowly and late in Ivory Coast's commercial capital as voters choose parliamentary representatives.
Electoral commission spokesman Baba Coulibaly said nearly two hours after voting started Sunday that some stations in Abidjan had (...)
AlHijjah 3, 1432, Oct 30, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to the Republic of Cote D'Ivoire Jamal bin Bakr Balkhaiour extended congratulations to Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz on being selected as Crown Prince and appointed Deputy Premier and Minister of (...)
AlHijjah 3, 1432, Oct 30, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Egypt, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan, who is also the Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the Arab League, extended congratulations to Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz on being selected as Crown (...)
AlQa'dah 28, 1432, Oct 26, 2011, SPA -- In the name of President Al-Hasan Ouatarra, his government and people of Cote d'Ivoire, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Denial Kablan Dekan and the Minister of African Solidarity Adama Pektogo (...)
Saudi ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire Jamal bin Bakr Belkhyor today managed to distribute assistance materials offered by the Saudi people over the needy in Abidjan.
The consignment includes 134 tons of dates distributed over school boys, orphans and (...)
The United Nations and regional governments are deploying additional soldiers to Ivory Coast's border area with Liberia after deadly attacks on villages in the densely forested West African region, a military official said.
Some 23 people were (...)
Lawyers for former Ivory Coast president Laurent
Gbagbo rejected on Friday charges against him, saying the move was
not legal, according to dpa.
Gbagbo was charged on Thursday with economic crimes, including
looting, armed robbery, and (...)
Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone, under house arrest in different towns in the north since they were ousted from power in April, were charged for the first time this week with "economic crimes, armed robbery, looting (...)
Ivory Coast reopened Abidjan's main prison on Tuesday and promised to improve notoriously poor conditions there, almost five months after insurgents freed its more than 5,000 inmates.
Ivory Coast is emerging from a vicious civil war, triggered when (...)
A bus in Ivory Coast plunged into Abidjan's lagoon on Friday, killing at least 12 passengers, rescuers at the scene of the accident said, according to Reuters.
The officials said the bus smashed into two cars on a bridge stretching over the lagoon (...)
Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara has named former rebel military commander General Soumaila Bakayoko as the head of the country's newly integrated armed forces, the defence ministry said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
His deputy will be General (...)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday that France will keep its troops in Ivory Coast to help protect its citizens in the West African nation, according to Reuters.
Sarkozy attended the inauguration of Ivory Coast President Alassane (...)
Ivory Coast resumed cocoa bean exports on Sunday more than three months after they were halted by the country's political conflict, officials and a Reuters witness said.
Workers were loading beans onto a ship owned by Bollore Africa Logistics from (...)
Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council ratified on Thursday the results of a presidential election showing that Alassane Ouattara won, reversing an earlier decision to reject them, Reuters reported.
The court's initial rejection of electoral (...)
An elders' group says they met with Ivory Coast's new president and the arrested strongman to urge reconciliation after months of postelection violence, AP reported.
The delegation led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Monday they met with (...)
Awwal 24, 1432 / April 28, 2011, SPA -- Ivorian cocoa farmers said on Thursday that prices for their beans were rising for the first time since the end of a violent post-election power struggle, but that smuggling continued into Ghana.
Banks began (...)
Awwal 12, 1432 / April 16, 2011, SPA -- Shooting erupted Saturday in a sprawling Abidjan neighborhood where fighters loyal to Ivory Coast's arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo have sought refuge, residents of the area said, according to AP.
The (...)
Awwal 10, 1432 / April 14, 2011, SPA -- Teams of Red Cross workers shoveled charred corpses into bags in Ivory Coast's main city Thursday while U.N. peacekeepers gathered weapons hidden in basements, throwing them into dump trucks for disposal, (...)
Awwal 09, 1432 / April 13, 2011, SPA -- Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said today he was pushing to restore security and economic activity in the country following a bloody five-month struggle with his rival Laurent Gbagbo, Reuters (...)
Awwal 04, 1432 H / April 08, 2011, SPA -- Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader said his forces will starve out the entrenched strongman who remains holed up underground at the presidential residence and that he'll focus on normalizing life in (...)
Akhir 30, April 4, 2011, SPA -- A final push by Ivory Coast rebels who have laid
siege to the economic capital Abidjan as they look to oust President
Laurent Gbagbo has got underway, a spokeswoman for Gbagbo's rival
Alassane Ouattara said Monday, (...)
Akhir 30, April 4, 2011, SPA -- A United Nations helicopter fired at strongman Laurent Gbagbo's forces on Monday as France authorized its military to take out his heavy weapons, an unprecedented escalation in the international community's efforts to (...)
Akhir 29, 1432, April 03, 2011, SPA -- The United Nations mission in Ivory Coast began evacuating some 200 employees after frequent attacks on its headquarters.
A U.N. employee said they were told Sunday that they were leaving. They were taken by (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 / April 1, 2011, SPA -- Heavy weapons fire erupted near Laurent Gbagbo's presidential palace in the centre of Abidjan on Friday, Reuters witnesses said.
A military source close to the Gbagbo camp said that forces loyal to rival (...)
Akhir 26, 1432, March 31, 2011, SPA-- Rebels fighting to install Ivory Coast's democratically elected president began besieging the main city of Abidjan on Thursday after seizing a key seaport overnight, as he vowed to «re-establish democracy and (...)
