20120721 AFP At least 11 people were killed in clashes in west Ivory Coast including seven in an attack on a UN-protected displaced persons camp by angry youths, who torched the site despite the presence of the peacekeepers, sources said.
20120721 AP ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — An Ivory Coast official says nine women have been sentenced to two years in prison each for involvement in female genital mutilation, marking the first time such a case results in jail time in the West African nation.
2012-07-11 Xinhua Chairman of Cote d'Ivoire's Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CDVR) Charles Konan Banny on Tuesday expressed his institution's concern over the "persistence of tension" among the country's political class.
20120708 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Charles Ble Goude will not say what country he is in. He calls on a masked number, after an appointment set up by a go-between in France.
20120620 AFP Interpol on Tuesday said its biggest international operation against ivory traffickers had led to more than 200 arrests and yielded nearly two tonnes of contraband ivory.
20120613 AFP The International Criminal Court on Tuesday postponed a hearing to confirm charges of crimes against humanity against former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo to August 13.
20120610 AFP Seven UN peacekeepers from Niger were killed in an ambush in western Ivory Coast, in the deadliest attack on the force since its deployment in 2004, a UN spokesman said.
20120610 AFP Thousands of civilians in Ivory Coast have fled their homes after seven UN peacekeepers and eight civilians were killed in raids near the Liberian border, a UN official and residents said Saturday.
20120610 AP ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivorian government forces will launch a military operation to hunt down the men responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven peacekeepers in an unprecedented attack on U.N. forces in the country. Officials said Saturday that at least eight civilians also were killed in the area.
20120605 AFP Ivory Coast's president, the head of the ECOWAS west African regional bloc, on Monday named his ambassador to France as minister of African integration and mediator in the crises in coup-hit Mali and Guinea-Bissau.
20120603 AFP The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Saturday that the worst post-poll violence in Ivory Coast was committed by forces loyal to ex-president Laurent Gbagbo.
20120526 AFP A lawyer for Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, suspected of crimes against humanity, has challenged the competence of the International Criminal Court, court documents showed Friday.
20120429 AFP The Ivory Coast government and opposition on Saturday agreed to launch a formal dialogue and meet four times a year to reconcile the country after last year's deadly crisis.
20120429 AFP The Ivory Coast government on Friday reached out to supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to step down after 2010 elections caused a bloodbath.
20120424 AFP President Alassane Ouattara vowed Monday that all those behind killings during Ivory Coast's post-poll crisis would be brought to justice and urged "true reconciliation."
20120319 Xinhua Insecurity is gripping Cote d'Ivoire's central region, including the key town of Bouake, adding to the difficulties being faced by the government in its bid to achieve post-war reconciliation and reconstruction.
20120318 AFP Ivory Coast in a ceremony on Saturday started a month of mourning and "purification" after post-election violence a year ago left about 3,000 people dead.
20120314 AFP Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara took the key post of defence minister and named a one-time rival as premier Tuesday as he moved to cement his authority nearly a year after coming to power.
20120313 AFP Former prime minister Guillaume Soro was unanimously elected the new speaker of Ivory Coast's parliament on Monday, becoming the first new holder of the post in a decade.
