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 (...)
Akhir 21, 1432 H/March 26, 2011, SPA -- Thousands of youth supporters of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo gathered around his presidential palace on Saturday in a show of support, as days of fierce fighting between his security forces and insurgents (...)
Akhir 08, 1432 / March 13, 2011, SPA -- A spokesman for President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed that the Ivorian leader has returned to Abidjan by helicopter and is back at a hotel under U.N. protection, according to AP.
Spokesman Patrick Achi (...)
Akhir 06 , 1432 H. / March 11, 2011 -- The top U.N. envoy in Ivory Coast is warning that a growing number of attacks against U.N. personnel constitute war crimes, according to AP.
Choi Young-jin told reporters Friday that U.N. peacekeepers have (...)
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- Ivory Coast's entrenched incumbent president imposed a no-fly order on U.N. aircraft in Ivory Coast, possibly complicating the return to the nation of the internationally recognized election winner who was (...)
Akhir 01, 1432 H/March 6, 2011, SPA -- Gangs of young people, actively aided by uniformed police, ransacked at least 10 houses in Abidjan belonging to officials allied with the internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast, as heavy fighting (...)
Awwal 30, 1432 H/March 5, 2011, SPA -- U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast will be reinforced by 2,000 soldiers and have received two combat helicopters to face worsening violence between rival political factions, a U.N. official said.
The (...)
Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- The government of Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader said the country's deepening political crisis has «crossed over to a new level of horror and barbarism» after soldiers backing his rival fatally (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- Security forces loyal to the man clinging to power in Ivory Coast fatally shot six women protesting his refusal to leave office Thursday, AP quoted the U.N. as saying that more than 200,000 people have fled the (...)
Awwal 25, 1432 H/Feb 28, 2011, SPA -- An internal U.N. report leaked to The Associated Press says two U.N. employees of Ukrainian descent have been kidnapped by the Young Patriots, a dangerous youth militia allied with the country's sitting (...)
Awwal 24, 1432 H/Feb 27, 2011, SPA -- Broadcasts of Ivory Coast's state television went down across the main city on Sunday after a transmitter was damaged in fighting between forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo and rival groups, (...)
Awwal 22, 1432 H/Feb 25, 2011, SPA -- Gun battles and explosions raged overnight in an Abidjan neighbourhood, residents said, where mysterious insurgents the local press are calling the "invisible commandos" have risen up against incumbent Laurent (...)
Awwal 21, 1432 H/Feb 24, 2011, SPA -- Sporadic gunfire rang out in an Abidjan neighbourhood and terrified residents fled with their belongings, witnesses said on Thursday, as Ivory Coast's post-election crisis turned increasingly violent, according (...)
Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- Ivory Coast's biggest bank, a unit of Societe Generale, suspended operations on Thursday, the latest in an exodus of foreign banks that is turning a political crisis into financial meltdown, according to (...)
Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- Ivory Coast's biggest bank shut down its operations Thursday, joining the companies fleeting the country's deepening political crisis as hundreds of growers in the world's largest cocoa exporter burned their (...)
Awwal 04, 1432 H/Feb 07, 2011, SPA -- At least two people were killed on Monday in clashes between security forces loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and residents of a neighbourhood popular with his rival, the local mayor's office said, according to (...)