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Cote d'Ivoire News
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara told his ministers on Tuesday to sign a code of ethics aimed at stamping out corruption and nepotism that he said makes his country one of the worst in the world to do business with.
Since ousting former President Laurent Gbagbo from office in April, after a bloody
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Abidjan - The death toll for an accident when a bus veered off a bridge last week in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan and plunged into the lagoon below has risen to 52, the government said Tuesday.
The communication ministry said that 11 more bodies had been retrieved from the lagoon by emergency services, bringing the
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Government ministers in Ivory Coast had to sign a new code of ethics Tuesday introduced by new President Alassane Ouattara to battle rife corruption and "moralise" public life in the country.
"Today we need to moralise public life by adapting management of the government's activities to meet the realities of the modern world and the demands
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Abidjan - At least eight people died on Friday after a bus veered off a bridge in Ivory Coast and plunged into the lagoon below.
Rescue workers pulled the bodies from the water beneath the Felix Houphouet-Boigny bridge, one of two bridges in Abidjan, the country's economic capital.
Officials did not immediately release
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Korhogo — Côte d'Ivoire has one president but two "treasuries" - one official, the other funded from the continued collection of road tolls and other taxes by former rebels.
During the nearly nine years rebels controlled northern Côte d'Ivoire, the civil administration, comprising such things as mayors' offices and the treasury, did not function and the
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Abidjan - The International Crisis Group said on Tuesday reconciliation must begin immediately in Ivory Coast, still fragile and unstable after a post-election battle that ended nearly four months ago.
Establishing security remains a priority for the new government of President Alassane Ouattara after the five-month leadership fight ended in April, the conflict-resolution group said in
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Monday visited Nigeria and thanked his counterpart Goodluck Jonathan for his staunch support during the West African country's post-election crisis.
Jonathan, chairman of West African bloc ECOWAS, repeatedly called for Ivory Coast veteran leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down in favour of Ouattara following November elections.
ECOWAS
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Four of ousted President Laurent Gbagbo's top military officers returned to Ivory Coast Friday from exile in Ghana in a 'reconciliation' move by the new government of Alassane Ouattara.
A government delegation sent by Ouattara to neighbouring Ghana last week convinced Colonel Boniface Konan -- a senior member of Gbagbo's Defence and Security Forces (FDS) --
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US President Barack Obama holds talks with four African leaders Friday, including Ivory Coast's new President Alassane Ouattara, an unprecedented meeting for a president with close ties to the continent.
In a rare foray in foreign policy during a month of July largely devoted to the still-unresolved debt debate in Congress, Obama will welcome Ouattara along
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More than half a million people remain displaced by Ivory Coast's post-election conflict and many are too afraid to return home for fear of ethnic reprisals, Amnesty International says in a report.
The London-based human-rights organisation says that forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the president, were reportedly involved in killings and other abuses during their battle
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast said on Thursday it plans to boost oil drilling by year's end to become a major regional producer.
"We want to start drilling in seven wells by the end of the year to ensure a production of 300 000 barrels a day by 2020, up from 40 000 barrels now," Adama Toungara,
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President Alassane Ouattara said he will ask U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington this week for some of the “massive support” his country needs after a decade of civil war.
Ouattara, who is scheduled to confer with Obama on July 29, said the economy of the world’s leading cocoa producer would contract by 7 percent this
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The head of Ivory Coast's constitutional council who initially named Laurent Gbagbo as the winner of disputed November presidential polls, has been replaced, state television reported Monday.
President Alassane Ouattara, who was inaugurated in May, issued a decree naming Francis Wodie, a 75-year-old jurist, to succeed Paul Yao N'Dre, a Gbagbo loyalist, as president of the
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Abidjan — Côte d'Ivoire is studying national health insurance and other schemes for financing public health services so more people have access to quality care. For now the temporary policy of free care - which the government said was aimed to help people after the post-election crisis - is causing grief for doctors and patients alike.
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara called on the new army Thursday to "clean up" its ranks as alleged violations continue three months after the end of the post-electoral crisis.
Addressing the new heads of the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast (FRCI) at the presidential palace in Abidjan, Ouattara said they must "clean up (their) ranks and
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Elements loyal to former Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo are no longer a threat to peace and order in the West African nation, the UN mission chief said on Monday.
"By and large, the ex pro-Gbagbo elements and their supporters are not likely to mount substantial challenges to law and order - a painful chapter of
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Abidjan — Government and civil society in Côte d'Ivoire are divided over the scope of the investigations to be undertaken by the International Criminal Court into atrocities and serious violations of human rights committed during the post- electoral crisis.
The Ivorian government wants the ICC to look only at events that took place in the past
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived late Thursday in the economic capital of Ivory Coast, the first stop on his west African tour to seal closer ties with the region.
"Few French communities overseas have been tested like yours has this year," said Fillon on arrival in Abidjan, some three months after the end of Ivory
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A years after the Morocco’s Marouane Chamakh arrival, Gervinho had signed a four years-contract for the London club of Arsenal. The transfer is estimated at 13, 5 M euros.
In press conference, his new coach Arsene Wenger confesses that the Ivory’s number 10 « began training in London today ».
There is no doubt that the ex-Lille’s
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The interim head of former president Laurent Gbagbo's party announced Monday that he was breaking with the political faction for refusing to accept change and said he planned to join a new party.
Mamadou Koulibaly, the speaker of Ivory Coast's national assembly who became interim head of the Ivorian People's Front (FPI) after the fall of
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's government has named a former rebel leader as the new army chief, replacing the general who served under the former strongman.
Deputy Minister of Defense Paul Koffi-Koffi on Thursday named Gen. Soumaila Bakayoko to the post. Bakayoko led the rebel forces that helped bring President Alassane Ouattara to power
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Ivory Coast has issued international arrest warrants for Charles Ble Goude and other close aides of former president Laurent Gbagbo, the Abidjan prosecutor said Friday.
"Arrest warrants have been issued against suspects on the run," including Ble Goude, who led Gbagbo's Young Patriots, and former government spokesman Ahoua Don Mello, the prosecutor Simplice Kouadio Koffi told
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The United Nations will open eight new peacekeeping bases in western Ivory Coast in an effort to restore law and order ahead of upcoming legislative elections, local U.N. mission chief Choi Young-jin said.
The bases will be located in areas where fighting was the fiercest in March, and where tens of
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Many Ivorians returning to their home towns and villages in the wake of their country's post-electoral crisis are in dire need of food, shelter and medical assistance, the United Nations humanitarian arm reported today.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said recent assessments have indicated that internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to western
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – State media in Ivory Coast says 15 ex-ministers who served the arrested former strongman have been indicted for crimes against the state, embezzlement and other offenses.
Fraternite Matin reported Monday that officials over the weekend charged the former prime minister, the former finance minister and the former president of the West African
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