Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire News

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Abidjan - Ivory Coast's main opposition party demanded a fixed schedule for staging the presidential election on Sunday, the latest in a string of missed target dates for a poll that is now over four years late.

Ivory Coast's ecological disaster AFP Video Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 11:45AM EST In August 2006, the Probo Koala ship, chartered by the oil-trading company Trafigura, dumped caustic soda and petroleum residues on trash dumps in Abidjan.

Via Vetsweb: Ivory coast: ravens did not die from high path AI . Excerpt: In October, the ag authorities of Ivory coast reported that thirty wild white-necked ravens were found dead on a secondary school ground in Abidjan.

Despite the postponement of the Nov. 29 presidential elections, Cote d'Ivoire's candidates have never stopped efforts to "fish for votes," local analysts say.

A Bronx man is sought in connection with the fraudulent use of a township resident's credit card.

On Sunday, November 15, 2009, the National Day for Peace, in the presence of Cardinal Bernard Agre, and the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Ambrose Madtha, the Church of Ivory Coast has solemnly celebrated the 75th anniversary of the country's clergy and 50th anniversary of 'Saint Coeur de Marie' Major Seminary in Anyama The Holy Mass, during which 59 ...

Africa : Cote d'Ivoire - UN Transports Voters Lists for Upcoming Poll 13 November 2009 13 November - The United Nations Operation in Cte d'Ivoire began transporting provisional voters lists to polling stations across the country in preparation for the upcoming presidential election.

About $45 million intended to compensate 30,000 victims of a toxic waste dumping scandal in Ivory Coast will not be diverted to a self-appointed community representative, a judge in Abidjan ruled Friday.

ABIDJAN, Ivor9 Coas4 An Ivory Coast election official says this month's presidential vote will not occur as planned.

By Loucoumane Coulibaly Abidjan - A final list of voters for Ivory Coast's election, meant to take place on November 29, will not be ready until the end of the year, the United Nations said on Tuesday, pointing to the scale of the latest of many delays.

The lawyer for victims of the Trafigura toxic waste scandal says the money paid in compensation may disappear into the pockets of Ivory Coast's corrupt regime.

AN AUSTRALIAN mining company caught up in war crimes allegations in Africa is about to sign off on a deal that will tie it to a British firm responsible for dumping toxic chemical waste that has killed or affected thousands of people.

By Loucoumane Coulibaly Abidjan - A row over voter eligibility could further delay Ivory Coast's election by several months and analysts and diplomats say it may deepen a political crisis by playing into the hands of hardliners.

Thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement thanks to maneuverings by a shadowy but "influential" figure in Ivory Coast , where the dumping occurred, the victims' lawyer said Wednesday.

The U.K. and France are the latest countries to jump on the bandwagon to force Israel to investigate the accusations in the Goldstone report.

In this scene from Dan Chaon's very bleak but memorable unreliable-narrator / mistaken-identity novel Await Your Reply , a young American woman named Lucy goes into a hair salon in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The country is French speaking, and Lucy is apprehensive about communicating.

Abidjan - A close ally of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said on Wednesday that it was not possible to organise presidential elections by the scheduled date of November 29.

Measures to reduce loss to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes such as abolishing user fees, paying transportation costs, providing meals and improving staff training would be cost-effective even if they prevented less than half of patients from failing to return to the clinic, according to projections based on data from Cote d'Ivoire.

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