Ivory Coast’s president announced 3 days of nationwide mourning and promised a quick inspection into the New Year’s Day stampede that wiped out 60 people, many of them women and kids. “The president of the republic delivers his saddest condolences to the households and close relations...
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At least six soldiers have been killed in an attack by gunmen on an army base in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan. One assailant was also killed in the gun battle which lasted several hours in the Riviera district of Abidjan. This follows the shooting of five soldiers on Sunday in an attack on a police station and an army checkpoint in Yopougon to the east of the...
French President Francois Hollande on Thursday urged his Ivory Coast counterpart Alassane Ouattara to pursue reconciliation efforts in the West African country. In talks here, Hollande “raised the question of the reconciliation needed between Ivorians, which occurs through dialogue, the fight against impunity and justice,” his office said in a statement. Ouattara’s...
DISPLACED people at Duekoue in the volatile west of Cote d’Ivoire have accused the army of attacking them and burning a camp while United Nations (UN) peacekeeping troops stood idly by. On Friday last week, a big crowd from the town raided the camp for 5,000 displaced people on its outskirts, in reprisals for the death of four people allegedly killed the previous day...
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), in conjunction with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, has concluded the EURO 270 million financing of the flagship bridge infrastructure project in Côte d’Ivoire. The project involves the design, construction, financing, commissioning and operation of a third bridge with three lanes in each...
Jerusalem – An Israeli court on Sunday upheld government plans to deport illegal migrants from the Ivory Coast, paving the way for the imminent expulsion of an estimated 2 000 Ivorians. The United Nations declared Ivory Coast “a crisis state” in 2004 after years of civil unrest. But after fighting ended and economist Alassane Ouattara was elected as president...
THE United Nations (UN) and Cote d’Ivoire yesterday jointly paid tribute to seven peacekeepers from Niger who were killed last week during an attack in the southwest, close to the border with Liberia, according to agency reports. Ivoirien President Alassane Ouattara, the head of UN peacekeeping operations in the West African country, Herve Ladsous, the head of the UN...
The Ivorian state television, RTI1 yesterday broadcast a video showing a group of soldiers claiming to be members of a “Council of National Sovereignty,” announcing a coup d’etat. The video also showed the spokesperson of the Council of National Sovereignty announcing “the dissolution” of all state institutions and political parties indefinitely. The...