Heavy gunfire erupted on Saturday at a military camp in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, witnesses said, a sign that a mutiny by disgruntled soldiers could be escalating despite government efforts to bring it to a swift end.
Shooting also took (...)
The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, in partnership with Afriland First Bank Ivory Coast, a Pan-African full service bank, have signed agreement in (...)
Fans who survived a deadly stadium stampede in the Ivory Coast blamed police Monday for the tragedy, saying security forces provoked the panic by tear gassing people who had nowhere to run.
World soccer body FIFA called for a prompt investigation (...)
A stampede at a World Cup qualifying soccer match in the Ivory Coast killed at least 22 people and wounded 132 Sunday, the Minister of the Interior announced on state TV.
Desire Tagro said fans pushed against each other, setting off a panic that (...)
held north and government-run south since a September 2002 rebellion sparked civil war, which killed thousands and displaced over a million.
The November attacks shattered an 18-month truce and showed the fragility of a two-year peace process. (...)
