20120303
AFP
A military court in Ivory Coast put on trial Friday 28 paramilitary police accused of crimes in the period last year when former president Laurent Gbagbo tried to cling to power, a prosecutor said.

20120218
AFP
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has assumed a new regional leadership role less than a year after he assumed power following the bloody post-election conflict in his own country.

20120218
AFP
Ivory Coast's president was named the new head of West Africa's regional bloc on Friday at a summit dominated by a security crisis in the Sahel that a rights group said could spark chaos in the desert region.

20120218
AP
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president has announced that his Ivorian counterpart is replacing him as chair of the West African regional bloc.

20120205
AFP
Ivory Coast opposition leaders loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo should reconcile with the country's rulers, an opposition leader said Saturday.

20120123
AFP
Africa Cup of Nations favourites Ivory Coast won a tense Group B opener against Sudan here on Sunday, Didier Drogba earning the star-studded Elephants a 1-0 win.

20120118
AP
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday praised Ivory Coast's government for seeking justice and accountability for crimes committed after a disputed 2010 election sent the country spiraling into violence.

20120117
AFP
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — After an intense year of diplomacy sparked by revolution and repression across the Arab world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking stock this week of an entirely separate democratic advance a half-continent away in West Africa.

20120117
AFP
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Ivory Coast Monday on her first visit there since a deadly crisis broke out following disputed 2010 polls.

2012018
AP
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ivory Coast have unearthed human remains that may be those of a French-Canadian journalist who disappeared in 2004, a government official and a media watchdog group said Saturday.

2012018
AFP
Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will get legal aid while his financial status is assessed, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Saturday.

20120102
AFP
The party of ousted Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Saturday called for "frank talks" with the country's new leaders to make elections due next year "democratic and credible".

20111231
AFP
Ivory Coast freed on bail ex-strongman Laurent Gbagbo's personal physician Friday and two journalists detained during the country's post-election unrest earlier this year, a judicial source said.

20111228
AFP
Recent deadly clashes involving Ivory Coast ex-rebels highlight the most urgent and difficult task facing President Alassane Ouattara -- reforming the armed forces without alienating the men who swept him to power.

20111227
AFP
Four people were killed and 15 were injured in inter-ethnic clashes on Monday near the Ivory Coast economic capital Abidjan, a defence ministry spokesman said Monday.

20111214
AFP
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's party was on the cusp of an outright parliamentary majority on Wednesday that may put its political alliances to the test.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Fatou Bensouda, the first African to be named as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has little time for accusations that the Hague-based court has harbored bias against Africa during its nine-year history.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's ruling coalition led in partial results from Sunday's legislative election, according to a small sample of preliminary results released on Monday.

20111212
Reuters
(Reuters) - Ivory Coast awaited results from its first parliamentary election for a decade, with officials saying a boycott by the opposition had done little to disrupt voting in the country recovering from a crippling civil war.

20111212
Reuters
(Reuters) - Ivory Coast held its first parliamentary election for a decade on Sunday, a relatively peaceful vote which was expected to strengthen President Alassane Ouattara's ruling coalition and make it easier for him to rebuild a nation crippled by war.