Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire News

04/07/2009 full text... Ivorian police question journalists after Gbagbo complaint Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire - A number of journa lists from the daily 'Le patriote', a newspaper close to the Rally of Republicans , were questioned on Friday by the Abidjan police after the Ivorian first Lady lodged a complaint against them.

The sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundati on for West Africa , has called on African leaders "to impress upon" Gambi a n President Yahya Jammeh "to unconditionally drop all criminal charges" preferre d against seven journalists.

The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 1 July 2009, appointed Bishop of Abengourou Rev Gbaya Boniface Ziri, Vicar General of the archdiocese of Abidjan.

The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, on 1 July 2009 appointed Bishop of Odienne , Rev Antoine Kone, of the clergy of Katiola, Docent of dogmatic theology and Latin at the inter-diocesan major seminary of Anyama, and at the Formation House of the Society for African Missions .

VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2009 - The Holy Father: - Appointed Bishop Fernando Antonio Saburido O.S.B. of Sobral, Brazil, as metropolitan archbishop of Olinda e Recife , Brazil.

The life of Ofori Muhammad, a 52-year-old fisherman in the port of Jamestown, would be idyllic if it were a bit more lucrative.

Abidjan - Ivory Coast on Friday reported its first swine flu cases - two women who had recently returned from Brussels.

ABIDJAN, 25 June 2009 - The baby was born and 12 days later died on a dilapidated upper floor of the AdjamA© market in CA te d'Ivoire's commercial capital Abidjan.

Nana Yaa Adadewa Addo, foreground, practises her catwalk during a rehearsal in Accra.

At the opening of the Year for Priests, 16 young men will receive priestly ordination as members of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, also known as the 'White Fathers.' According to a statement from Fr.

People stand by the scene of an accident where a car was smashed between a truck and a bus in the northern motorway, near Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Cte d'Ivoire. Reports in Ivorian dailies mainly focused on the Government's emergency plans to deal with the damage from heavy rains and mudslides; President Gbagbo's visit in the northwest town of Touba; and the ...

DJAN, Cte d'Ivoire, 17 June 2009 - Sabra Seydou arrived at the Abobo Kennedy Clinic in Abidjan with just minutes to spare before giving birth.

ABIDJAN: Unusually heavy rains in Ivory Coast's coastal and eastern cocoa-growing regions last week threaten the quality and size of the mid-crop while damage to roads has prevented some produce leaving plantations.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Alhaji Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak has come under intense media bombardment, following a revealing revelation by the transferred Accountant at the Ministry.

Teenage girls dancing at a nightclub in CA te d'Ivoire's commercial capital Abidjan.

At least 16 people have been killed in a poor neighborhood of Abidjan when a mudslide buried their rickety homes.

New research finds that chimpanzees remember the precise location of their favorite fruit trees.

COCOA and fuel smuggling activities are reported to have hit the Juaboso and Bia districts of the Western Region.

President Mills has interrogated his Minister of Youth and Sports, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarrak over allegations that he airlifted his girl friend, one Edith Zineuali to the finals of the CHAN tournament in Abidjan, which hotel bills were picked up by the state.