Laurent Gbagbo

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Judges Must Review Whether To Free Ivory Coast Leader

Appeal judges Wednesday struck down a decision denying former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo interim release during...

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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...

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Three Soldiers Killed In Ivory Coast Barrack Shooting

Three soldiers died after shooting erupted overnight at a base in Ivory Coast, which has been gripped by tensions...

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Two Ex-Rebel Leaders Jailed In I. Coast Over Pay Protest

Two former rebel leaders in Ivory Coast were jailed Tuesday after the ex-fighters obstructed a road into the central...

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Biography of the Late Ivorian and Former Newcastle Player

Cheick Tiote played last for Chinese club, Beijing Enterprise before he lost his life to the cold hands of death in...

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Ivory Coast Army Chief Meets Mutineers In Their Barracks

Ivory Coast armed forces chief Sekou Toure met on Wednesday with troops who had mutinied over pay, in a bid to heal...

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A Letter To President Alassane Ouattara

A letter to President Alassane Ouattara: You reap what you sow Mr. President, from my rat hole somewhere on the...

International

Shooting In Abidjan and Bouake

Heavy gunfire has erupted in Ivory Coast's two biggest cities, as a mutiny in the army enters its fourth day. The...

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Former Rebels Block Entrance To I. Coast’s Second City

Several hundred ex-rebels on Monday blocked access to Ivory Coast's second city Bouake, their former stronghold,...

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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,...

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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....

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Former Top General Jailed Over I.Coast Novotel Murders

A court in Ivory Coast has handed a former top general 18 years behind bars in connection with the abduction and murder...

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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...

International

After Jammeh, Gambians Seek Justice For the Disappeared

When Gambian intelligence officers arrested journalist Ebrima Manneh at his newspaper, he asked an office guard to save...

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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...

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Explosive Al Jazeera Documentary

Since President Alassane Outtara was elected in 2011, international investment has been pouring in and violence has...

Politics

The Lives of Political Despots; The Case of Yayah Jammeh

All weeklong, citizens and residents of the Gambia and the whole West African sub-region had to sit on tenterhooks...

Opinion

Two Transitions And A Dog’s Bad Name

This is a historic week in the world as far as democratic transitions are concerned. On Friday, January 20, 2017,...