Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire News

Ivorian's captain Didier Drogba gets off a plane at Felix Houphouet Airport in Abidjan on February 13, 2012.

Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa producer, plans to make available a fund with at least 40 billion CFA francs to buyers of the beans, Finance Minister Charles Koffi Diby said.

Leading export companies and authorities in Ivory Coast have moved closer to solving a dispute threatening to derail the top cocoa grower's planned reform of the sector, officials from both sides said after talks that ended late on Tuesday.

The company is engaged in the exploration and production of oil and gas. The company's main activities are the identification of suitable oil and gas exploration and production opportunities and raising capital to fund those opportunities.

The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West African country near the end of last year.

Ivory Coast's top court on Tuesday annulled the election of 11 lawmakers from President Alassane Ouattara's party in a December vote after complaints that they breached campaign laws.

Ivory Coast's reform of its cocoa sector, vital for the country to obtain further debt relief, began in confusion on Tuesday as the regulator hailed the first forward-sales auction a success while exporters said they had boycotted the event.

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 27, 2012/African Press Organization / - Following violent clashes between supporters and opponents of the President of CA te d'Ivoire in Abidjan last Saturday, the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in CA te d'Ivoire, Doudou DiA ne, called on the country to "ensure the freedom of association and ... (more)

IRIN  reports that Cote d'Ivoire is abandoning its free health care for all scheme after a period of nine months, noting, "Theft, poor management and rising costs have made the service -- introduced by President Alassane Ouattara's government at the end of civil conflict to ease a dire public health situation -- unaffordable." According to the ... (more)

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UN Independent Expert on Human Rights, Doudou Diene , on a visit to Cote d'Ivoire in November 2011.

ABIDJAN, 26 January 2012 - Cte d'Ivoire is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara was to sign a security agreement with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday, less than a year after French troops helped oust his predecessor.

TENGRELA, 25 January 2012 - Local authorities across eight out of 81 districts in northern Cte d'Ivoire have announced they are banning artisanal gold-mining in a bid to try to regulate the informal industry, and stop the encroachment of gold-miners on precious farmland.

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Women show support to Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo during a rally called by Ivory Coast youth minister Charles Ble Goude and others in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

The company operates through a state-of-the-art natural gas powered generation facility.

The United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire strongly condemned today the incidents that left many people injured during a meeting of the former ruling party, the Ivorian Popular Front, which took place in the city of Abidjan.

Nine months after fighting ended in Cte d'Ivoire, at least 15,000 displaced people are still in camps, many of the half million returnees require food aid, the groundwork for reconciliation in many parts of the west has not yet been laid - and aid workers are worried funding will dry up, threatening the fragile peace.

A severe shortage of clean drinking water in parts of Cte d'Ivoire is reaching critical levels and threatening public health, say residents and officials.