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The prosecution has not presented enough evidence to try former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court said on Tuesday. The judges gave the prosecution more time to build its case, setting a deadline of November 15. The court said that while it found the prosecution's case at this point insufficient to
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Abidjan — At first glance, Ivory Coast has come a long way since 2010's post-election violence. But is the progress merely an illusion? Construction sites loom at every twist and turn of the super six-lane highways that weave around the Ébrié lagoon in the heart of Abidjan. Roads are being widened. New apartment blocks and shopping malls are joining 1970s
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Abidjan - A militia chief in Ivory Coast, suspected of taking part in deadly post-election violence in 2011, was arrested on Saturday in his western stronghold, a military source said. Amade Oueremi, the head of an armed group that for years has occupied the Mont Peko forest in western Ivory Coast, "surrendered" to an Ivorian army detachment, a source in
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Abidjan - Ivorians turned out in low numbers for Sunday's local elections, seen as a test of stability in the west African nation in a poll boycotted by former president Laurent Gbagbo's party. The UN had appealed for calm after skirmishes during the election campaign, voicing hope that the vote would help put the country on the path to "genuine
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Abidjan - Ivorians voted on Sunday in local elections seen as a trial run for a presidential poll in 2015 amid high tensions as the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo boycotted the poll. Voting began Abidjan 's working-class Koumassi district about half an hour after the official 07:00 (GMT) starting time, with longer delays reported elsewhere in the west
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Abidjan - The party of Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday voiced concern over growing political tension ahead of local polls meant to cement post-conflict stabilisation. Ouattara's Rally of Republicans (RDR) deplored "a surge in tension among the candidates' campaign teams" ahead of Sunday's local polls following a string of skirmishes across the western African country. "Our wish is for
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast's parliament granted President Alassane Ouattara the power to take decisions concerning the economy by decree this year, giving him a free hand to implement programmes aimed at spurring the West African nation's post-war recovery. The world's top cocoa producer is emerging from a decade-long political crisis that ended with a brief civil war in 2011 and
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Abidjan - The party of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will boycott elections in April after accusing the government of fixing the date for the polls without proper consultation, party officials said. Gbagbo is awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) accused of crimes against humanity committed during a 2011 civil war sparked by his refusal to accept
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Abidjan - West African nations will need aid worth €715m to sustain and reinforce a military mission to help fight Islamists in Mali, Ivory Coast's Foreign Minister Charles Koffi Diby said on Monday. The amount is twice that of funds pledged by donor nations to the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to help bring a multinational African
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The Hague - International Criminal Court prosecutors are laying out evidence they say proves that former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is guilty of crimes including murder, rape and persecution in the violent aftermath of his country's disputed 2010 presidential election. Gbagbo became the first former head of state to be taken into custody at the permanent war crimes court
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Abidjan - An Ivory Coast court has ordered that the jailed deputy leader of the party of ex-president Laurent Gbagbo be freed on 28 February but restricted to his home region for one year, a judicial source said on Thursday. The court this week rejected an appeal by Laurent Akoun, the secretary general of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), who
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those who killed hundreds of men in the country's western town of Duekoue, according to a new United Nations expert report that also criticized the indefinite and inhumane detention of those suspects that are being held. The report by
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Abidjan - West African regional bloc Ecowas on Saturday will boost its troop deployment to Mali to nearly 6 000 to fight Islamists, Ivory Coast's defence chief General Soumaila Bakayoko said after an emergency meeting in Abidjan. Bakayoko said the 15-member Economic Community of West African States will eventually send 5 700 soldiers to Mali, while Chad, which is not
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Bamako - West African leaders are gathering for a summit on Mali to flesh out their plans for ramping up its military role alongside the French. The meetings taking place on Saturday in Ivory Coast come as the French-led military intervention in Mali enters its second week. Charles Koffi Diby, Ivory Coast's foreign affairs minister, says Mali's neighbours must "face
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Abidjan - Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year's Eve fireworks display at a stadium said on Wednesday that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of national mourning and launched
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The Hague - Judges at the International Criminal Court will hold a hearing in February to decide whether evidence against former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is strong enough to put him on trial for crimes against humanity. The charges against Gbagbo stem from murder and rape allegedly committed by his supporters in 2010 as he tried to cling to
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Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today unanimously dismissed an argument on its jurisdiction presented by defence lawyers for former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, who is currently facing trial there on charges of crimes against humanity. The lawyers had questioned Mr. Gbagbo's prosecution by the ICC, arguing that Cote d'Ivoire is not formally a state party to the
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The Hague - A hearing to decide if ex-Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo should go on trial for crimes against humanity, allegedly committed in the west African country, should be held without further delay, an International Criminal Court judge said on Tuesday. "It's been a year that we have had a procedure that's not started yet. It's imperative that we
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Abidjan - A United Nations expert panel has warned that cross-border raids into western Ivory Coast have become more violent and better organised and "could have profound effects" on security in the border region near Liberia if they continue. The attacks are believed to have been orchestrated by supporters of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to step
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Abidjan — The adoption by Côte d'Ivoire's parliament of a law on equality between legally married couples has sparked anger, especially among religious people. For them, this law will create more problems in the home than it will solve. Adopted on 21 November, the law says family affairs should be managed jointly by both spouses in the interests of the
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The two strikers who have dominated African football for almost a decade now are among 15 nominees for three places in the world line-up. They will come up against heavyweights of World football like Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo Radamel Falcao and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Didier Drogba has been credited for a fine season with Chelsea, leading the Blues to FA
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Abidjan - A monitoring group says thousands of people in Ivory Coast continue to flee their homes because of ongoing land conflicts and residual tension from last year's post-election violence. The report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said on Wednesday at least 24 000 people were displaced so far this year. An additional 40 000 to 80 000 are
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Today, 22 November 2012, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to unseal the warrant of arrest issued against Simone Gbagbo for four charges of crimes against humanity. According to the warrant of arrest, initially issued under seal on 29 February 2012, Mrs Gbagbo is allegedly responsible, within the meaning of article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute
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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has named Daniel Kablan Duncan as the country's new prime minister, reports Radio France Internationale (RFI). Duncan, 69, was foreign minister in the government which was dissolved last week. Like his predecessor, Jeannot Kouadio Ahoussou, who lasted only eight months in the post, the new prime minister is a member of PDCI, the Democratic Party of
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Ivory Coast on Monday admitted to possible military "slip-ups" following a wave of attacks by armed groups and promised to launch a probe, after a Human Rights Watch report said the army was responsible for widespread human rights abuses. Given the "security situation" following the deadly attacks on the army in August and September and the "level of human rights
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