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[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] General Philippe Mangou, the chief of defense staff under the previous government, has been appointed as Cote d'Ivoire's ambassador to Gabon, says a front-page story in Fraternite Matin. According to the paper, Mangou's nomination was confirmed yesterday during the Council of Ministers meeting presided over by President Ouattara.  

A magnum of champagne was one of the prizes claimed by opposition forces as they rampaged through the fortified site in Abidjan. Buildings were set alight and broken glass carpeted the floor as Mr Ouatarra's soldiers celebrated their victory amid the ruins.  

"Xinhua has reinforced the already good relations between the two countries by also playing its part in the Cote d'Ivoire-China integration," he said. Ambassador Zhang hailed the success of this photo gallery which would show the Cote d'Ivoire public "what ...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] "Adama Bictogo swept away by the toxic waste scandal," says a prominent headline in Fraternite Matin (p. 1). The paper (p. 4) published a decree signed yesterday by President Ouattara "terminating the function of the Minister of African Integration, Adama Bictogo." The paper also carries on its front page a photo of the Probo Koala, the ship that dumped toxic waste in Abidjan in August...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] "There are many challenges ahead including the completion of the disarmament, disbandment and reintegration program," an article in Fraternite Matin (p. 6) quotes President Ouattara as telling a delegation from the UN Security Council visiting Cote d'Ivoire.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] One person was left dead as traditional hunters, widely known as Dozos, clashed with the population in the central town Ouaragahio, reports L'Inter (p. 3). According to the paper, the incident occurred over the weekend.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A front-page headline in Fraternite Matin says that the reform of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) was high on the agenda yesterday during a meeting between members of the UN Security Council and Ivorian authorities.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A report in Fraternite Matin (p. 5) says that a 15-member delegation from the UN Security Council is currently visiting Cote d'Ivoire as part of a three-nation tour of West Africa. The delegation arrived yesterday in Abidjan and will be travelling to Liberia and Sierra Leone.  

ABIDJAN, 22 May 2012 (IRIN) - Some 320,000 people in Côte d'Ivoire are grappling with hunger partly because they cannot afford the high prices of imported rice, but government efforts to bring down the cost of the staple food are so far not working well.  

[IRIN] Abidjan - Some 320,000 people in Côte d'Ivoire are grappling with hunger partly because they cannot afford the high prices of imported rice, but government efforts to bring down the cost of the staple food are so far not working well.  

Books Galore! Millions of books available at discounted prices! Fiction, thrillers, biographies,... Abidjan - Victims of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast said on Wednesday that officials should follow up the firing of a minister accused of stealing money ...  

Mr Ouattara won the presidential election in November but Mr Gbagbo has refused to stand down, accusing his rival of rigging votes in the country's north. Popular protests against Mr Gbagbo in Abidjan, the main city, were violently crushed by state armed ...  

[IPS] Abidjan - Thousands of people suffered rape, torture and other violence during the post-electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire beginning in December 2010. But many survivors of rights violations have been afraid to seek justice for fear of reprisals by the perpetrators. An initiative by the International Federation of Human Rights aims to support 75 such victims as they bring their cases to court.  

[RNW Africa] Abidjan - Last month, Ivoirians across the country commemorated the first anniversary of former President Laurent Gbagbo's arrest. Although reconstruction efforts are beginning to bear fruit, price inflation and the deadlocked reconciliation process continue to worry the population. In many ways, the Ivory Coast is on hold.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] Le Nouveau Reveil (p. 1) carries a prominent story alleging that "more than 700 million FCFA (about US $1.3 million) has been discovered in a bank account belonging to Gbagbo." According to the article (p. 3), the money has been found in an account located in a bank in Cote d'Ivoire.  

ECOWAS MEDIATION AND SECURITY COUNCIL TO HOLD EXTRA-ORDINARY MEETING IN ABIDJAN   ABUJA, Nigeria, May 17, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An extra-ordinary session of the ministers of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council (MSC) will take place on Saturday, 19th May, 2012 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire to review the security situation in [...]  

ABIDJAN (AFP) - Last year, as the battle over the Ivory Coast's presidency raged in Abidjan's streets, Aboudia locked himself in his studio and painted images of mangled bodies, ghostly soldiers and child coffins.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] Some 21 gendarmes, who were released recently after being tried and acquitted by a military court for alleged breach of state security, will re-appear before the same court today, reports Fraternite Matin (p. 8).  

ECOWAS COUNCIL TO MEET IN ABIDJAN ON ALLOCATION OF STATUTORY POSITIONS   ABUJA, Nigeria, May 17, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The ECOWAS Council of Ministers will meet in Abidjan from 18th May 2012 on the allocation of nine statutory positions in the ECOWAS Commission and other Community institutions.   The two-day extraordinary [...]  

ABIDJAN, May 20 (Reuters) - From his lagoon-side allotment in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, Moussa Yanda has a ringside seat to watch the foundations of a $290-million toll bridge slowly rise up from the shore. "I love watching it," enthused the ...  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - From his lagoon-side allotment in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, Moussa Yanda has a ringside seat to watch the foundations of a $290-million toll bridge slowly rise up from the shore. "I love watching it," enthused ...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A prominent report in the weekend issue of Notre Voie (p. 2) claimed that government forces have tortured detainees in a camp located in the Abidjan neighborhood of Yopougon, reputed to be the stronghold of the opposition FPI party.  

EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT OF ECOWAS HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, 26 APRIL 2012 / FINAL COMMUNIQUE   ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, April 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — FINAL COMMUNIQUE   1.    At the invitation of H.E. Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire and Chairman of ECOWAS, the Authority of Heads [...]  

CÔTE D’IVOIRE / UNOCI CONCERNED OVER PRISON BREAKS, REAFFIRMS ITS WILL TO KEEP PROVIDING SUPPORT TO THE IVORIAN AUTHORITIES   ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, May 7, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The 2010-2011 post-election crisis was marked, among other things, by the escape of close to 12,000 prisoners from the 22 penitentiaries in the [...]  

ABIDJAN (AFP) - It took a mother's last wish, and a man to make it happen, but Ivory Coast now has it's first all-women orchestra in what is hailed as a little "revolution" in this fiercely patriarchal society.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A report in Soir Info (p. 6) says that Rodrigue Djedje, a lawyer of the former first lady, has been charged with "a breach of state security" and is being held in custody at MACA, a prison in Abidjan. The report also says that the lawyer was arrested by the DST, a state intelligence unit, on March 29, 2012 at the Abidjan international airport. The article also indicates that Djedje was...  

Cote d’Ivoire / Journalist’s wife to visit Abidjan for 8th anniversary of disappearance   PARIS, France, April 12, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Osange Silou-Kieffer, the wife of the missing Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, and Reporters Without Borders will begin a five-day visit to the Ivorian business capital of Abidjan tomorrow in order to [...]  

Still on the resolution of the Malian crisis, Soir Info (p. 3) says that Diacounda Traore is seeking help from Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara. According to the report, Traore is counting on President Ouattara and ECOWAS to bring peace to his country.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] According to a report in L'Inter (p. 4) Ivorian authorities have decided to tighten security measures along the country's border with Liberia.  

CÔTE D’IVOIRE / UNOCI CHIEF RECEIVES FPI SECRETARY-GENERAL   ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, April 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, had a meeting on Thursday 26 April 2012 at the headquarters of the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) with the Secretary-General [...]  

CÔTE D’IVOIRE / UNOCI DEPLORES ATTACKS BY ARMED INDIVIDUALS ON THE BORDER LOCALITY OF SAKRE   ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, April 26, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Summary of UNOCI weekly press conference «UNOCI strongly deplores the attack perpetrated on Wednesday 25 April 2012 by armed elements against the village of Sakré, on the border [...]  

[MFWA] Ousmane Sy Savané, Director General of Cylcone, a pro-Gbagbo publishing company, was reportedly picked up by police personnel drawn from the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DST) in Abidjan, the commercial capital, on March 27, 2012.  

Bamako - Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore will hold talks with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday, as a post-coup political crisis drags on in his country, officials said. "The president will got to Abidjan this afternoon for ...  

BAMAKO, May 16, 2012 (AFP) - Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore will hold talks with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara Wednesday, as a post-coup political crisis drags on in his country, officials said. "The president will got to Abidjan this ...  

CÔTE D’IVOIRE – MALI BORDER: UNOCI AND LICORNE INCREASE MIXED PATROLS   ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, April 5, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — SUMMARY OF UNOCI WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE “The UN Mission has increased its mixed patrols (UNOCI-Licorne) along the border between Côte d’Ivoire and Mali following the latest events in Mali,” the acting [...]  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] "Are pro-Soro supporters trying to destabilize Ouattara with the complicity of the FPI?" asks a prominent front page headline in today's issue of Le Nouveau Reveil.  

Background: Cervical cancer screening is not yet standard of care of women attending HIV care clinics in Africa and presents operational challenges that need to be addressed. Methods: A cervical cancer screening program based on visual inspection methods was conducted in clinics providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. An itinerant team of midwives was in charge of proposing cervical cancer screening to all HIV...  

[Ecowas] 1.    At the invitation of H.E. Alassane Dramane OUATTARA, President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire and current Chairman of ECOWAS, the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held an Extraordinary Session in Abidjan, Republic Cote d'Ivoire, on 27 March 2012.  

ECOWAS MEDIATION, SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET IN ABIDJAN ON MALI, GUINEA-BISSAU   ABUJA, Nigeria, April 11, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ministers of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council will meet in Abidjan on Thursday, 12th April 2012 to review proposals for resolving the political crises in Mali and Guinea Bissau.   The [...]  

It has been reported that Ivory Coast is near a deal with foreign investors to build a 330-megawatt thermal power station near the commercial capital Abidjan as part of wide-ranging efforts to boost energy production, a senior official ...  

According to Dr. Ernest Zokou who is the coordinator of the national program for the fight against smoking, ideal measures need to be taken to protect the population against tobacco which represents a drug. Zokou who was speaking in Abidjan during ...  

ABIDJAN, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Jonathan Goodluck on Wednesday made a stop-over in Abidjan where he held talks with his Cote d'Ivoire counterpart Alassane Ouattara over "worrying" issues in West Africa, according to official sources.  

L'Inter (p. 10) reports on a visit of the Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Neal S. Wolin, to a mangrove reforestation project in Bingerville located on the outskirts of Abidjan. The project, the report says, is financed by the Global Environment Facility ...  

Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore will hold talks with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara Wednesday, as a post-coup political crisis drags on in his country, officials said.  

President Goodluck Jonathan will today attend an Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire to discuss the current situation in Mali and Guinea-Bissau.  

AllAfrica.comAbidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, April 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)AllAfrica.com1. At the invitation of HE Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire and Chairman of ECOWAS, the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held an Extraordinary Session in ...2 detained Guinea-Bissau leaders leave countryFox NewsWest Africa bloc to send troops to Mali...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A prominent headline in Le Nouveau Reveil says that President Ouattara has been "horrified" by the level of killing committed in Duekoue, a town in western Cote d'Ivoire that was hard-hit by the post-electoral violence.  

Abidjan - Six people were killed in an overnight attack on a village in Ivory Coast's restive south-west bordering Liberia, a military source said on Wednesday. The source said four attackers were arrested, all of them sympathisers of ousted strongman Laurent Gbagbo, currently in custody at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he fac...  

Abidjan - South African Archbishop Emeritus 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 ...  

In a related development, Fraternite Matin (p. 13) noted that as part of the agenda of the U.S Senators' visit to Cote d'Ivoire, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden visited a health care facility in the Abidjan ...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A report in Nord-Sud Quotidien (p. 5) says that an army reform committee met yesterday in Abidjan under the chairmanship of the Minister in charge of Defense, Paul Koffi Koffi. According to the paper, the panel is tasked with coming up with strategies aimed at reforming the security sector in Cote d'Ivoire and proceeding with the disarmament, disbandment and the reintegration of the...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A prominent headline in Notre Voie (p. 1) suggests that a former warlord has been interrogated by a team of International Criminal Court investigators over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to the paper (p. 2) former rebel leader Fofie Kouakou, who was promoted by President Ouattara to the position of regimental commander in the northern city Korhogo, was...  

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will Thursday attend an Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire to discuss the current situation in Mali and Guinea-Bissau.  

President Alassane Ouattara concluded Monday his maiden visit as head of state to the western regions of the country. L'Intelligent d'Abidjan (p. 6) noted that on the margin of this visit the Ivorian leader had an encounter with the press. In a wide ...  

"I want to ban racketeering among the police," vowed Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko who is quoted by Le Patriote (p. 1). According to the paper the minister stated this yesterday in Abidjan during a guest speaker program organized by GEPCI, Cote d'Ivoire ...  

Abidjan — In some neighbourhoods in the city of Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, the quest for drinking water is often like an obstacle course - and operators of informal retail water outlets are not making it any easier. Five years ago ...  

ABIDJAN (AFP) — A year after the fall of Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast's new leader Alassane Ouattara has relaunched the economy, but recon¬ciliation after a bloody political crisis has failed to gain ground. The crisis began when Gbagbo refused after ...  

ABIDJAN: A year after the fall of Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast’s new leader Alassane Ouattara has relaunched the economy, but reconciliation after a bloody political crisis has failed to gain ground. The crisis began when Gbagbo refused after presidential ...  

[SciDev.Net] Abidjan - A national project to rebuild Côte-d'Ivoire's capacity to store crop seeds and safeguard agricultural genetic resources is getting back underway, after grinding to a halt in the wake of the 2010-11 political crisis.  

ABIDJAN (AFP) - 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 ...  

[IPS] Abidjan - Mathieu Djessan looks over the four-hectare expanse of fish ponds with satisfaction. The aquaculture enterprise the 29-year-old runs here near the town of Tiassalé in southern Côte d'Ivoire is quickly proving profitable.  

ABIDJAN (AFP) - 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 ...  

Le Quotidien d'Abidjan (p.2) for its part, noted that French troops stationed in Cote d'Ivoire are the ones who made possible the arrest of the ex-leader by forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara. The paper published an interview conducted yesterday ...  

Food from the Ivory Coast is one of the city's rarer West African cuisines, with only one place in East Harlem and another in Bushwick (or maybe Bed-Stuy, depends on how you draw the border). Named after the country's capital, Abidjan is located on ...  

A report by Fraternite Matin (p. 5) noted in its weekend edition that the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan, through the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has financed projects designed by Search for Common Ground - a US-based NGO in a bid ...  

ABIDJAN, May 12 (Bernama) -- Experts from Cote d'Ivoire's public health ministry on Friday called for the reinforcement of the fight against smoking in the country, Xinhua news agency reported.  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A report in Fraternite Matin (p. 5) says that the facilitator in the Ivorian peace process, Boureima Badini, has called for a "dynamic political dialogue" among Cote d'Ivoire's political stakeholders.  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least five people in an overnight attack on a border town in southwestern Ivory Coast, humanitarian and military officials said on Wednesday. Unidentified armed men burned houses, looted shops and terrorised villagers ...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A report in Fraternite Matin (p. 5) says that the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) is to install nine sites for disarmament throughout the country. The paper attributes this information to the head of UNOCI, Bert Koenders. The report also says that the sites will be completed by December this year.  

Abidjan -  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...  

The ICC Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda was speaking to reporters yesterday in Abidjan after talks with President Alassane Ouattara, reports the paper (p. 3) which expresses concerns about the visit of the deputy prosecutor to Cote d'Ivoire. "I've come to ...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] "With a few days to go before the Easter festivities, Bouake is gripped by fear," said a prominent headline in the weekend issue of Fraternite Matin (p. 1). Another front-page headline in this paper claimed that "There is an upsurge of insecurity despite efforts being deployed by the police and gendarmerie."  

Gomes and Pereira were later welcomed at Abidjan airport by Ivory Coast's Foreign Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan and the African Integration Minister Adama Bictogo, an AFP reporter said. Pereira thanked Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, current head ...  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Year-on-year inflation in Ivory Coast fell to 0.6 percent in March from 2.0 percent in February, figures from the National Statistics Institute showed on Monday. The monthly report showed food and soft drinks declined 2.8 ...  

ABIDJAN May 8 (Reuters) - Farmgate cocoa prices in Ivory Coast's principal growing regions rose last week, as demand grew due to improved bean quality and smuggling to neighboring Ghana, farmers and buyers said on Tuesday. Ivory Coast ...  

He also visited the United States for a similar purpose. Besides former Senegal coach Bruno Metsu, who has been in contact with Diallo, former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson also sent a representative to Abidjan to negotiate his return after leading ...  

A child sits on ruins of a house destroyed during the 2011 post-electoral violence in the western Ivory coast village of Niambli, near Duekoue. ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Abundant rains fell last week in Ivory Coast's key western … Full Story »Ivorian cocoa ...  

According to an article by L'Intelligent d'Abidjan (p. 2) the Ivorian First Lady is to sponsor the building of a state-of-the-art healthcare facility dedicated to women and children in the Abidjan suburb of Bingerville. Mrs. Dominique Ouattara, who is also ...  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cocoa farmgate prices in Ivory Coast's main growing regions fell slightly last week due to the poor quality of available beans, farmers and buyers said on Tuesday. In the western region of Soubre, at the heart of the cocoa ...  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Two top politicians who were detained after this month's coup in Guinea-Bissau have left the country after being released. The former prime minister and interim president traveled aboard Ivory Coast's presidential plane ...  

For two years, he attended classes at the Yopougon-Kouté primary school in the north-western part of Abidjan without sitting for the exams that would allow him to move on to high school. "I didn't have a birth certificate. My parents weren't ignorant ...  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — An official in Ivory Coast says West Africa’s regional bloc will be sending at least 3,000 troops to Mali following last month’s coup. The announcement was made late Thursday by the country’s deputy defense minister Paul ...  

ABIDJAN, April 12 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast is on track to achieve completion of an IMF-backed debt relief accord by the end of June and is expected to resume paying coupons on its defaulted Eurobond, the IMF representative in the country said on Thursday.  

Gomes and Pereira were later welcomed at Abidjan airport by Ivory Coast’s Foreign Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan and the African Integration Minister Adama Bictogo, an AFP reporter said. Pereira thanked Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ...  

Advans SA, a microfinance investment vehicle managed by Horus Development Finance of France, has announced that it has opened the first branch of its fifth microfinance institution (MFI), Advans Cote d’Ivoire, in Abidjan, the capital of the country. The MFI, which had been in the planning stages since at least 2009, now offers credit to [...]  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The Ivory Coast football federation says negotiations are ongoing with national team coach Francois Zahoui despite his contract having expired at the end of the African Cup of Nations nearly two months ago. Federation ...  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast plans to issue a 60 billion CFA franc three-year bond with a 6.0 percent coupon to raise funds for infrastructure projects, one of the lead managers said on Monday. The bond, which will be listed on the West ...  

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The heads of West Africa's militaries are meeting to come up with a plan to intervene in Mali after a coup and a rebellion in the north. The generals met Thursday in Ivory Coast at the request of the Economic Community of West ...  

Army chiefs of staff from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gathered yesterday in Abidjan for an emergency meeting on the Malian crisis. Providing details on the closed-door meeting, Soir Info (pp. 2-3) noted that the move was meant to ...  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Rainfall last week across most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions has improved the outlook for the April-to-September cocoa mid-crop, with abundant volumes expected from June, farmers and analysts said on Monday.  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A United Nations official says Ivory Coast security forces accused of killings, arbitrary arrests and other human rights violations are acting alone and not under government orders. Doudou Diene, the independent expert on human ...  

"Ouattara to destabilize Bamako's coup plotters," says a prominent headline in L'Intelligent d'Abidjan (p. 1). According to the paper, 15 heads of State from the West African ECOWAS regional body are expected to meet Tuesday in Abidjan to discuss the ...  

ABIDJAN, April 12 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast is on track to achieve completion of an IMF-backed debt relief accord by the end of June and is then expected to begin paying back arrears on its defaulted Eurobond, the Fund's representative in the ...  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, March 20 (UPI) -- Thousands of ex-combatants turned in weapons during a disarmament campaign in Ivory Coast, the U.N. peacekeeping mission announced. Hamadoun Toure, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory ...  

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AFPFrancophone Africa looks for fresh start with HollandeAFPABIDJAN — Francois Hollande should pursue more equitable relations with Africa than outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who at times showed arrogance in dealing with former colonies, observers said Monday. But it is unrealistic to expect a ...and more »  

The Sun DailyDeathbed wish gives Ivory Coast first all-women orchestraThe Sun DailyABIDJAN (May 7, 2012): It took a mother's last wish, and a man to make it happen, but Ivory Coast now has it's first all-women orchestra in what is hailed as a little "revolution" in this fiercely patriarchal society. "Why is it so surprising to see ...and more »  

Prison officers will be sanctioned for jail break - OuattaraThe Nation NewspaperOuattara told newsmen at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Airport on Tuedsay in Abidjan that the government would put a spotlight on the prison guards. The Ivorian Ministry of Justice had said that 52 prisoners escaped from the main jail (Maca) located in ...and more »  

Moroccan Media star Mostapha Mellouk to co-chair the African Media Leaders ...Middle East Confidential... former director of news channel “Medi1 sat”, Mostapha Mellouk, was designated by the African Media Initiative (AMI) board, as Co-Chairman of the 5th African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF) 2012 scheduled for November 8th-9th in Abidjan, Icory-Coast .  

US- Country Bilateral RelationsAllAfrica.comIvorian public television, RTI1, yesterday carried footage of the Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Neal S. Wolin, holding talks with Prime Minister Jeannot Ahoussou Kouadio in Abidjan. According to the report, issues including partnership between the ...and more »  

The Security Situation in NorthAllAfrica.comThis daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The opinions expressed in these reviews in no way reflect the views of the United States Government and are ...  

BusinessLIVEUK Trade With Ivory Coast Seen Doubling to 600 Million EurosBloomberg“Ivory Coast is a very strong country in Africa,” he said in an interview yesterday in Abidjan, the commercial capital of the world's biggest cocoa producer. “We want UK companies not just to buy goods and services, we encourage more investments here.Ivorian cocoa prices up on quality, smugglingReutersIvorian cocoa prices rise on qualityBusiness Recorder (blog...  

AFPWest Africa to send team to G. BissauAFPABIDJAN — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Wednesday that West Africa will within days send a team to Guinea-Bissau for new talks on steering the coup-torn country back to constitutional rule. Jonathan made the announcement after flying into ...ECOWAS regional crises takes Jonathan to I.CoastVanguardCote d'Ivoire, Nigerian Presidents Meet on "Worrying" IssuesCRIENGLISH.comWest Africa: Ecowas...  

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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara had said the sustained democratic government shouldn't be abandoned. ECOWAS leaders have called for a reversal of a coup led by Malian Capt. Amadou Sango. Coup leaders are said to have adopted a new ...  

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A prominent headline in Fraternite Matin (p. 1) says that "more than 4 billion FCFA (about US $8 million) has been used to pay for per diem."  

Abidjan, March 28: At least 30 people died in the west African nation of Cote d'Ivoire Tuesday when two buses collided head-on. - Indiatalkies.com