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Ivorian cocoa prices rise as sector slowly revives
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 (...)

28 - 04 - 2011
Ivory Coast strongman held in northern town
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 (...)

16 - 04 - 2011
Ivory Coast: Corpses and weapons collected
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, (...)

14 - 04 - 2011
Ouattara Says Security, Economy Main Priorities
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 (...)

13 - 04 - 2011
Ivory Coast leader: We'll starve out Gbagbo
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 (...)

08 - 04 - 2011
Final Ivory Coast rebel push underway
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, (...)

04 - 04 - 2011
UN helicopter fires at Gbagbo Ivory Coast forces
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 (...)

04 - 04 - 2011
UN Evacuates 200 Ivory Coast Staff
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 (...)

03 - 04 - 2011
Heavy weapons heard, Gbagbo's palace attacked -source
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 (...)

01 - 04 - 2011
Rebels besiege Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan
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 (...)

31 - 03 - 2011
I.Coast Gbagbo supporters rally as clashes continue
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 (...)

26 - 03 - 2011
President Ouattara back in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

13 - 03 - 2011
UN: Attacks up against personnel in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

11 - 03 - 2011
Gbagbo vows to block UN flights in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

10 - 03 - 2011
Houses looted by police in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

06 - 03 - 2011
U.N. force in Ivory Coast to be reinforced-official
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 (...)

05 - 03 - 2011
Soldiers open fire on women protest in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

04 - 03 - 2011
Forces kill 6 women marching in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

03 - 03 - 2011
2 UN employees kidnapped in Ivory Coast
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 (...)

28 - 02 - 2011
Ivorian state TV cut off after transmitter damage
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, (...)

27 - 02 - 2011
Battles rage with mysterious Ivory Coast insurgents
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 (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Residents flee more gunfire in Ivory Coast's Abidjan
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 (...)

24 - 02 - 2011
Desperate Ivorians queue for cash as banks close
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 (...)

17 - 02 - 2011
Ivory Coast's largest bank closes, crisis deepens
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 (...)

17 - 02 - 2011
Ivorian forces' clash in Ouattara area kills two
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 (...)

07 - 02 - 2011
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