Cote d'Ivoire News
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Abidjan — South of the Sahel, where drought, high food prices and other factors have pushed some 16 million into hunger, 320,000 people in Côte d'Ivoire are also grappling with food insecurity. A combination of forces is causing region-wide high prices for rice, but the government's efforts to make the staple food cheaper lack teeth and are proving difficult to
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About 50 inmates Friday staged a jailbreak from Ivory Coast's main prison but about 20 were apprehended, an informed source said. Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko deplored the "regrettable" incident, which he blamed on a surveillance breach but added no details of the raid. Locals however reported hearing sustained gunfire in the morning near the prison. Police set up roadblocks near
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu's peace and human rights group on Thursday urged Ivory Coast to make more decisive efforts at reconciliation, more than a year after a political crisis left thousands dead. The Elders, chaired by the veteran anti-apartheid activist and made up of world figures including former US president Jimmy Carter, voiced concerns that some of those responsible for the
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The Ivory Coast government and opposition on Saturday agreed to launch a formal dialogue and meet four times a year to reconcile the country after last year's deadly crisis. Authorities said that supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo who were detained after his ouster could be freed, arrest warrants annulled and funds blocked by Ivorian courts unfrozen "on a case
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Abidjan - Seven people died and about a dozen homes burned in an attack on a village in Ivory Coast's restive southwest, bordering Liberia, the UN said on Friday revising an earlier toll given by a military source. "Seven people were killed in the attack" against the village of Sakre and six, including two children and a woman, were wounded,
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The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to maintain sanctions on Ivory Coast for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on the import of rough diamonds from the West African nation. A resolution adopted by the council Thursday also renews financial sanctions and travel bans on political figures for violating human rights and blocking peace, including former
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Eight people were killed and ten homes burned in an attack on a village in Ivory Coast's restive south-west bordering Liberia, a military source said Thursday. The death toll was earlier been put at six and two people injured in the attack on Tuesday night in the village of Sakre. Four attackers had been arrested. A military source earlier blamed
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West African leaders Thursday urged the military in Guinea-Bissau and Mali to cease interfering in civilian affairs at the start of a special summit to discuss coups carried out in both countries. In Guinea-Bissau "we can no longer tolerate this usurpation of power by the junta" which took control on April 12, said Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, the current
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Six people were killed in an overnight attack on a village in Ivory Coast's restive south-west bordering Liberia, a military source said Wednesday. "The attack staged at night in the village of Sakre claimed six lives," said the source, speaking from Guiglo, a town about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the village. Other military and local sources confirmed the
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Duekoue - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara headed to the western town of Duekoue on Monday, the scene of the worst killings during the post-election crisis. Ouattara's visit to Duekoue comes at the end of a three-day trip to the west, his first time in the region since taking office in April 2011 after a political meltdown that saw months
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Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara arrived in the town of Duekoue on Monday for his first visit to the scene of the worst killings during the country's post-election crisis. Thousands of people greeted Ouattara, shouting his nickname "ADO," as he arrived, accompanied by his French wife Dominique, at a square bedecked with a banner reading "Reconciliation Under Way in Duekoue."
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The lawyer for Ivory Coast's firebrand ex-first lady Simone Gbagbo, Rodrigue Dadje, has been charged with threatening national security and jailed, a colleague said Wednesday. Gbagbo, who was seen as a formidable power-broker before her husband Laurent was forced from office last year, was taken into custody after his ouster and is in prison facing a raft of charges including
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast marked the first anniversary of Wednesday of the fall of Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to step down after presidential elections and was arrested for his role in the ensuing violence. The west African nation was plunged into crisis in late 2010 when Gbagbo would not yield to Alassane Ouattara, who was internationally recognised as the victor
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This could be the last chance for the Ivorian striker and the all time African highest goal scorer of the Premier League, Didier Drogba, to lift up the Champions league trophy. Didier has shown great enthusiasm about the trophy by posting on his twitter account that Chelsea shall win the final May 19 at the Allianz Arena of Munich. Drogba
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The presidents of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso on Thursday abandoned a trip to mediate with Mali's junta after a brief protest by coup supporters on the airport runway, airport and security sources said. Ivorian leader Alassane Ouattara "was in the Malian airspace, he turned back", said a source at the Bamako airport. Burkinabe president Blaise Compaore was also no
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Abidjan - Investigators with the International Criminal Court may have found mass graves in a western Ivory Coast town, a court official said on Wednesday, where rights groups say fighters loyal to the president killed hundreds of people amid postelection violence last year. "We have confirmed some locations in which we think ... there are mass graves," said Amady Ba,
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Monrovia - Regional UN envoys and troops are looking to boost security along the porous border between Ivory Coast and Liberia which has become a hotbed of mercenary activity, a statement said on Tuesday. The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) said its chief officer Moustapha Soumare had met the UN's special representatives for Ivory Coast and West Africa, Albert
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday named as prime minister Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio, a prominent member of a smaller party that had backed his 2010 election bid, the government said. Ahoussou-Kouadio is a former justice minister and member of ex-president Henri Konan Bedie's Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI), and his appointment fulfills an election promise made to Bedie for
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Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro and his government stepped down Thursday as official results were finally issued for December's legislative election, which were swept by the president's party. Soro stepped down in a ceremony broadcast on state television. The final results from the Independent Electoral Commission confirmed that President Alassane Ouattara's party had won an overall majority in the
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Ivory Coast should take urgent steps to disarm former rebels involved in rising violent crime in and around the central town of Bouake, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday. Since early December, at least 22 people have been murdered in the area during attacks on passengers travelling on motorbikes or in commercial vehicles, the non-governmental organisation said in a statement.
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Ivory Coast were held 0-0 at home by Guinea Wednesday in their first appearance since losing the Africa Cup of Nations final on penalties to Zambia in Libreville this month. The Elephants lacked Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou of Chelsea and brothers Yaya and Kolo Toure of Mancheter City and the English Premier League quartet were sorely missed at Felix
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They tell you in the mainstream media that Quattara won? How did he win? Who decides on who wins elections? What constitutional body has absolute and final say on election malpractices? The Supreme Court.' Alassane Ouattara is the current president of Ivory Coast, selected by France and the United States on behalf of the international community, and with the assistance
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President Barack Obama on Friday extended for another year a freeze on the assets of three Ivory Coast nationals accused of being responsible for political violence in the west African country. The sanctions were first imposed in 2006 by former president George W. Bush, pursuant to a UN resolution, against Charles Ble Goude, Eugene Djue, and Martin Kouakou Fofie. Goude
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast's top court Tuesday annulled the election of 11 lawmakers from President Alassane Ouattara's party in a December vote after complaints that they breached campaign laws. But the head of the Constitutional Council, Francis Wodie, said the court had upheld the election of 55 others. There had been 110 requests concerning 66 candidates. Wodie said the complaints
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At least 45 people were injured, two seriously, as supporters of former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo clashed with rivals Saturday and police fired tear gas to keep the two sides apart. The Gbagbo loyalists were forced to call off their meeting, intended to mark a "political comeback" for the former ruling Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), after they came under
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