20110428 presstv The leader of a militia group that helped Ivory Coast's new president to topple his rival Laurent Gbagbo has been killed after he and his men refused to obey a presidential order to disarm.
20110428 presstv Ivory Coast's government forces have moved into the stronghold of militia amid fragile security situation after the overthrow of former President Laurent Gbagbo.
Nairobi — A farming technology that uses intercropping to repel insect pests from food crops has been given a new lease of life by a programme to expand its uptake.
Duekoue — Doh St Michel fled his village near Duékoué in western Côte d'Ivoire after gunfire erupted and farmers were killed on 28 November 2010, the day of the presidential run-off election.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore named himself to the post of defence minister in a move aimed at quelling army dissent and popular unrest in the West African state.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara on Friday ordered soldiers from all sides of the country's conflict to return to their barracks in an effort to restore stability.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's newly-formed military is not ready to conduct security patrols without U.N. and French help as soldiers might be prone to looting on their own, a top Ivorian commander said on Monday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The French military said on Sunday it would hand control of Ivory Coast's main airport back to national armed forces as fighting in the West African state dies down.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The government of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara retracted a statement on Friday that an influential youth leader and staunch supporter of former leader Laurent Gbagbo had been arrested.
20110414 Reuters SANYA, China (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday U.N. peacekeepers had taken sides in the conflict in Ivory Coast and called this a "very dangerous tendency."
Now that Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo has been detained in Abidjan after a four-month stand-off that brought the nation to full-scale war, the incumbent president should be held accountable, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Shouts of joy erupted in parts of Abidjan on Monday as news of the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo spread through Ivory Coast's main city, where many had been trapped in their homes during 10 days of heavy fighting.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo was arrested by opposition forces on Monday after French troops closed in on the compound where the self-proclaimed president had been holed up in a bunker for the past week.
Forces loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo have launched a "renewed assault" against those of the internationally-recognized leader of Cote d'Ivoire, Allasane Ouattara, the United States government said Sunday.
United Nations peacekeepers in Côte d'Ivoire launched a military operation late today against the forces supporting the former president Laurent Gbagbo after they continued to mount attacks against the UN, the country's elected Government and civilians in the city of Abidjan.
The United Nations human rights office said today that its investigators have found more than 100 bodies over the past 24 hours in three different towns in strife-torn Côte d'Ivoire, with some of them appearing to be ethnic killings.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo have stepped up a counter-attack on presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara by firing on his hotel headquarters in Abidjan.
PARIS (Reuters) - Lawyers for Ivory Coast's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara asked United Nations and French forces on Sunday to eliminate incumbent Laurent Gbagbo's heavy weapons and militia and bring him to justice.
The French army was forced to abort a mission to evacuate foreign diplomats from Abidjan on Saturday, after coming under fire from forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo who is fighting to retain the presidency against Alassane Ouattara.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, besieged in Ivory Coast's main city, have retaken ground and are edging closer to where rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara is holed up, the United Nations said.
