20110310
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's sitting president Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday decided to ban flights throughout the West African country against the UN peacekeeping mission and the French Licorne troops.

20110305
reuters

PARIS/BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast will be reinforced by 2,000 soldiers and have received two combat helicopters to face worsening violence between rival political factions, a U.N. official said.

20110305
reuters

ABIDJAN/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has paid over 60 percent of civil servant salaries, his government said Friday, suggesting Western sanctions meant to starve him of funds and force him to leave have not had full effect.

20110304
reuters

ABIDJAN/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has paid over 60 percent of civil servant salaries, his government said on Friday, suggesting Western sanctions meant to starve him of funds and force him to leave have not had full effect.

20110304
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Seven women were killed in a clash on Thursday in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan, which has turned into a battleground between the rival forces since the Nov. 28 presidential election, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the West African country.

20110304
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 3 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed in clashes in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan on Thursday, local sources reported.

20110203
Xinhua
ADDIS ABABA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) on Wednesday extended the mandate of the high level panel set up to deal with the situation in Cote d' Ivoire for a month.

20110301
reuters

DJAN (Reuters) - Youth supporters of Ivory Coast's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo rampaged through the business district of Abidjan on Tuesday, pillaging shops owned by foreigners.

20110301
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - U.N. investigators trying to confirm if Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo broke an arms embargo by importing helicopters had to abandon the search at the weekend after his forces shot at them, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

20110228
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The United Nations has accused Belarus of breaking an arms embargo against Ivory Coast by delivering attack helicopters to Laurent Gbagbo, the leader who has resisted three months of pressure to quit after a disputed election.

20110228
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Many people in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, had no access to state television on Sunday after a transmitter was damaged in fighting between forces loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and rival groups.

20110225
africanews

The upsurge of urban guerilla that has broken out in Abidjan and in the western region of Ivory Coast may augur a return to civil war in the West African cocoa-rich country. Heavy fighting occurred between FDS (pro-Gbagbo security forces) and an mysterious combat unit, calling itself "the invisible commando", in the working-class district of Abobo (a Ouattara stronghold, in the north of Abidjan) early this week, as the AU panel stepped up efforts to break the impasse over the country disputed election.

20110225
reuetrs

ABIDJAN/BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast have seized a town in government territory and said on Friday they were still advancing, raising the prospects of a return to open war.

20110224
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- A dozen people were reportedly killed in the past 24 hours in clashes in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan as a top-level African panel ended mediation on Wednesday without a statement.

20110223
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions shook an area of Abidjan that supports Ivorian presidential claiment Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday, and at least three soldiers died in clashes with protesters calling on his rival to step down.

20110221
RFI

Fresh clashes erupted between supporters of Côte d'Ivoire's rival presidents Monday, as four African leaders launched a new bid to break the impasse. A man was shot dead by the army during clashes with protesters.

20110221
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian troops killed at least six protesters calling on Laurent Gbagbo to step down as leader on Monday, witnesses said, as African presidents charged with resolving Ivory Coast's crisis arrived in Abidjan.

20110218
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's producers in the cocoa-coffee industry protested angrily on Thursday in front of the European Union (EU) offices in the West African country's economic capital Abidjan.

20110214
UN News

United Nations peacekeepers in Côte d'Ivoire, where former president Laurent Gbagbo refuses to step down despite his electoral defeat, are crucial to preventing a possible resumption of civil war, and they will respond with force if attacked, the top UN envoy in the country said today.

20110208
xinhua

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A fire that engulfed at least three floors of Ivory Coast's multi-storey Treasury building on Tuesday was later put out, according to witnesses, and officials said no key files were damaged.