Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among African youth, so governments across the continent have resolved to drive in a new unified direction, ahead of Road Safety Week, observed May 15 to 21.
Increasingly grim accident statistics (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) on Friday handed over 50 tons of dates as a gift from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Ivory Coast, which was delivered by Deputy Saudi Ambassador to Ivory Coast Advisor Ahmad Al-Ghamdi, in the (...)
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), kicked-off on Monday, in the Ivorian capital.
Against the backdrop of a UNCCD warning that up to 40 per cent of all ice-free (...)
Saudi Ambassador to the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Subaiee met here today with Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire Sidiki Diakite.
During the meeting, they discussed ways (...)
Mali was likely to be the focus of a two-day meeting of West African heads of state due to start later today in Ivory Coast with a focus on regional security and terrorism.
Presidents and prime ministers of the Economic Community of West
African (...)
The president of Chad has called for a quicker deployment of African troops in Mali at a two-day meeting of West African heads of states that started Wednesday in Ivory Coast, with a focus on regional security and terrorism.
"Malian military, your (...)
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 (...)
Alassane Ouattara was officially
sworn in on Friday as the president of Ivory Coast, following months
of conflict, according to dpa.
By taking the oath, he ended the presidency's state of legal
limbo, which had been in effect since elections (...)
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 27, 1432 H/April 1, 2011, SPA -- A Frenchman was found dead in a hotel in the Ivory Coast capital as fighting intensified between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo and rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara, Reuters quoted a French foreign (...)
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 (...)
Ivory Coast's President
Laurent Gbagbo was named as his party's candidate for November
elections at a meeting on Saturday that pointed to an escalation
of rhetoric in the runup to the long-delayed post-war vote, Reuters reported.
Despite growing (...)
Hundreds of loyalist
soldiers withdrew Saturday from the former buffer zone that
once split Ivory Coast, and returned to their barracks in
the first stage of a nationwide disarmament program
expected to last three months, AP reported.
Rebels (...)
Authorities in Ivory Coast
traded blame on Thursday for a toxic waste dumping scandal that
has killed three people, made hundreds ill and forced the West
African country's government to resign, according to Reuters.
Prime Minister Charles Konan (...)
The remains of six Bangladeshi U.N. peacekeepers killed in a road accident last month in Ivory Coast arrived home Monday aboard a special U.N. aircraft, a military statement said.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan received the bodies on (...)
Ivory Coast's rebel and army chiefs agreed on Saturday that fighters would start laying down their weapons from June 27, marking fresh progress in a revived peace process meant to end a civil war once and for all, Reuters reported.
"The operations (...)
a hefty sum which analysts say could draw in idle warriors from neighbouring countries like Liberia where the reward for handing over guns is much lower.
Casting some doubt on the process is a confidential World Bank report leaked to the media this (...)
Ivory Coast's military killed nine French soldiers in a bombing raid on the rebel stronghold of Bouake on Saturday and opened fire on troops from the former colonial power in the main city of Abidjan.
French President Jacques Chirac ordered (...)
wielding supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo, known as "Young Patriots", rampaged through Abidjan and Yamoussoukro furious at the French destruction of the planes.
Plumes of thick smoke rose from the plush Cocody suburb of Abidjan where a French (...)
held town of Bouake, killing the soldiers. The Ivorian army said it had not meant to bomb the French base in Bouake.
France retaliated by destroying two Ivorian Sukhoi fighter jets on the ground at Yamoussoukro airport and then went on to bomb all (...)
Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo is urging Ivorians to stop attacking French citizens and businesses after French troops destroyed two Ivorian warplanes on Saturday, a presidential spokesman said.
Rampaging youths in the main city Abidjan set (...)
U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast fired into the air and French soldiers blasted teargas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in the rebel-held town of Bouake on Monday, peacekeepers said.
Witnesses said three protesters were taken to hospital (...)
