20110524
Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - British companies are illegally dumping thousands of tonnes of harmful electronic waste such as old computers in West Africa, instead of recycling them, an investigation by an environmental group said on Monday.

20110522
Aljazeera

World leaders attend inauguration ceremony amid hopes for peaceful new chapter in West African country's history.

Alassane Ouattara has been sworn in as Ivory Coast's president in an inauguration ceremony attended by world leaders.

At least 100,000 people from across the region gathered in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital, for Saturday's ceremony, Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege covering the event said, describing the atmosphere as "carnival-like".

20110521
cnn
(CNN) -- Alassane Ouattara was inaugurated Saturday as president of troubled Ivory Coast in a ceremony that marked a symbolic end to months of political turmoil.

20110521
Reuters
YAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - Alassane Ouattara was to be inaugurated as president of Ivory Coast on Saturday, in a ceremony most Ivorians hope will put a decade of conflict and instability behind them and mend a once prosperous economy.

20110521
Reuters
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court said on Friday its prosecutor had applied to investigate Ivory Coast's post-election violence in which thousands of people have been killed and more than a million displaced.

20110519
press tv
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has demanded the International Criminal Court (ICC) to conduct a probe into the crimes committed after the November presidential election.

20110513
afrcanews

As Ivory Coast slowly resumes cocoa exports after a three month hiatus, the legacy of its brutal post-election violence is coming to light. In Yopougon, a suburb of Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan, Losseni Foumba recalls how he organised football matches on a sandy patch of land. With the rains now moving the loose sand, he made a macabre discovery -- the football pitch is now a mass grave.

20110514
reuters

The family of ex-Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo said on Friday the ousted leader had still not been allowed to meet with lawyers, a month after his arrest.

20110513
REUTERS

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said no exceptions would be made in punishing those responsible for rights abuses, a pledge that will lead to close scrutiny of his forces' actions during its recent war.

20110510
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - In a muddy slum at the edge of Ivory Coast's main city, palm leaves stuck in reddish mounds of earth mark the mass graves of locals killed by rampaging gunmen.

20110509
UN News

United Nations human rights workers have found the bodies of nearly 70 people, apparently the victims of a militia backing the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, in a series of graves in a suburb of Côte d'Ivoire's biggest city, Abidjan.

20110509
reuters

Switzerland has opened a money-laundering investigation following a criminal complaint lodged by the Ivory Coast government of President Alassane Ouattara, Swiss officials said on Monday.

20110408
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast resumed cocoa bean exports on Sunday more than three months after they were halted by the country's political conflict, officials and a Reuters witness said.

20110407
This Day

Cote D'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara took his presidential oath Friday, cementing his rule over the West African state in a tense ceremony conducted by an ally of ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo.

20110507
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara took his presidential oath on Friday, cementing his rule over the West African state in a tense ceremony conducted by an ally of ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo.

20110505
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Dozens of bodies littered the streets of an Abidjan neighbourhood on Tuesday as fighting continued between Ivory Coast troops and the remnants of a militia loyal to deposed leader Laurent Gbagbo.

20110502
reuters

KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's deposed former leader Laurent Gbagbo urged supporters on Monday to drop political quarrels for now and help the West African country revive its economy in peace.

20110501
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's president on Sunday said former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny would head a truth and reconciliation commission, set up to heal divisions after months of conflict.

20110429
The Elders

Three members of The Elders will travel to Abidjan this weekend to encourage healing and dialogue on national reconciliation.

20110428
Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has launched a criminal probe against former president Laurent Gbagbo, his wife Simone and 100 other close associates over alleged human rights abuses, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.