201011 Ivorian crisis

Headlines

ICC Judges To Rule On Release of Ivory Coast Ex-Leader Gbagbo

War crimes judges will rule Wednesday whether former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo can be released from prison for...

News

Nana Akufo-Addo Honoured In Cote d’Ivoire

The President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, on Friday, May 5, 2017, decorated Ghana's President,...

News

Akufo-Addo’s Response To the Receipt of Burkina Faso Highest National Award

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Friday, May 5 decorated with the highest national award of Burkina Faso....

Top Stories

Ivory Coast’s Former First Lady Simone Gbagbo Acquitted

A court in Ivory Coast has acquitted the country’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, of crimes against humanity. The...

International

Simone Gbagbo Cleared of War Crimes Charges

An Ivory Coast court has found former first lady Simone Gbagbo not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity...

Headlines

Murder Trial Over ‘Novotel Captives’ Opens In I. Coast

The trial opened Tuesday in Ivory Coast of 10 men, mainly soldiers, accused of kidnapping and killing four men from the...

International

Trial of Ivory Coast Ex-First Lady To Go Ahead Without Her

A judge in Abidjan has decided that the trial of former First Lady of Ivory Coast Simone Gbagbo for crimes against...

International

Ivory Coast Votes On New Constitution As Opposition Boycotts

Voters in Ivory Coast cast their ballots on Sunday in a referendum to decide whether to approve a new constitution that...

International

Ivory Coast Police Crack Down On March Against New Constitution

Police in Ivory Coast arrested opposition figures and used teargas to disperse demonstrators gathering on Thursday to...

International

Ivory Coast Ex-First Lady Gbagbo ‘distributed Weapons’

A witness at the trial of Ivory Coast ex-First Lady Simone Gbagbo, who is facing charges of war crimes and crimes...

International

Ivory Coast Trial of Ex-First Lady Resumes

Simone Gbagbo has been on trial since May 2014 for alleged crimes of war and crimes againts humanity The trial of Ivory...

Opinion

A Bad Strategy Could Be A Tragedy

It is commonly said that " it is easy to destroy than to build". Those who built this nation struggled for decades and...

International

Obama Lifts Economic Sanctions Bush Imposed On Ivory Coast

President of the United States (US), Barack Obama, has lifted economic sanctions imposed on Ivory Coast in 2006 by the...

Africa & World

First Post-War Voting Underway in Ivory Coast

Ivorians are voting in Sunday’s presidential elections with incumbent Alassane Ouattara fending off challenges from...