20100909
africanews

Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo signed a decree on Thursday validating definitive voter lists in the West African country, removing one of the last hurdles before long-delayed elections can take place. A presidential vote in the world's top cocoa grower is scheduled for October 31.

20100906
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cloudy, rainy weather continued in Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions last week, blotting out sun needed to ripen cocoa pods and threatening bean quality, farmers and analysts said on Monday.

20100906
africanews

Ivorian striker Didier Drogba on Sunday insisted that he had not given up on his international career with the west African nation. "Each time they call me up, I'll be there," the 32-year-old Chelsea hit man told French Television Channel, TF1.

20100904
New Times

Kigali — Rwanda's national football team, Amavubi Stars, may not be one of the continent football powerhouses, but over time they have proven more than capable against some of the continent's top teams like Nigeria and Ghana, especially when they play in front of their fans at Amahoro National Stadium.

20100904
africanews

Ivory Coast's electoral commission said it had produced a final voter list for the first time, raising the chance that an election which has been delayed six times in five years might go ahead. "The list is finalised. We are respecting the schedule," electoral commission spokesman Nicolas Coulibaly said.

20100829
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Biofuel demand is driving a new "land grab" in Africa, with at least 5 million hectares (19,300 sq miles) acquired by foreign firms to grow crops in 11 countries, a study by an environmental group said on Monday.

20100827
africanews

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's elections and efforts to start rebuilding and reunifying the country after years of crisis will inflate the 2010 budget by 30 percent to 145.5 billion CFA francs, the finance ministry said on Friday.

20100809
africanews

Former Olympique Marseille coach Gerard Gili is in talks with Ivory Coast's Football Federation to coach the national team.

20100806
africanews

The date for long-delayed presidential elections in Ivory Coast has been set for 31 October, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has said. A rebellion lead by Soro split the country in half in 2002 and polls are seen as a vital step to end the crisis. Soro joined a unity government in 2007, but the peace process has been dogged by delays.

20100730
allafrica

Abidjan — Ivorian health officials are vaccinating people against yellow fever in Abidjan, the commercial capital, and two other major cities, after the disease killed two people and struck nine others in recent weeks.

20100727
africanews

Patrice Pohe, journalist and a communication adviser of Raymond Tchimou, the state prosecutor, was on July 21, 2010 arrested and detained on the orders of his boss for allegedly leaking the report about embezzlement in the cocoa and coffee sector of the country to the privately-owned Le Nouveau Courrier newspaper.

20100724
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, whose rebel group occupies the country's north, has resigned as party chief to focus on organising long-delayed presidential elections, his spokesman said on Friday.

20100723
africanews

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court fined commodities trader Trafigura one million euros on Friday for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory Coast which ended up in the open air, and for concealing the waste's harmful nature.

20100719
Reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Farmers whose crops are raided by wild animals like elephants should try driving them away with pepper spray, using guard donkeys or booby trapping food with snakes, the U.N. said on Monday.

20100719
africanews

ABIJDAN (Reuters) - A judicial inquiry in Ivory Coast into corruption allegations against Interior Minister Desire Tagro cleared him on Monday of charges including stealing money meant for victims of a toxic waste dumping.

20100717
africanews

Théophile Kouamouo, the Editor-in-chief of the Ivorian daily 'Le Nouveau Courier' and three of his collaborators are being held in detention at the headquarters of Ivorian judiciary police section in Abidjan, after publishing the results of the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor about alleged fraud and embezzlement in Cocoa and coffee sector.

20100716
africanews

Théophile Kouamouo, the Editor-in-chief of the Ivorian daily 'Le Nouveau Courier' and three of his collaborators are being held in detention at the headquarters of Ivorian judiciary police section in Abidjan, after publishing the results of the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor about alleged fraud and embezzlement in Cocoa and coffee sector.

20100712
reuters

ABIJDAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's electoral commission announced on Monday that it had enlarged its provisional voter list to 5.77 million from 5.3 million to include voters who were too young at the last polls.

20100629
afrol

"Every country is voting, except for us," the Côte d'Ivoire newspaper 'Le Patriote' titles is current front page. Nobody follows Guinea's elections more thoroughly than the Ivorian press.

20100620
africanews

West African nation Ivory Coast tumbled in their second World Cup game against giant Brazil in a 3-1 drubbing. The South Africans progressed to the knockout stages of the tournament but saw their talisman Kaka being sent off.