Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire News

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Mercer Consulting has released a global report on personal safety that aims to rank cities by their safety levels to help companies compensate employees fairly when placing them on assignments.

An Ivory Coast soldier patrols the city of Abidjan last spring. The fighting that followed the country's December 2010 election killed 3,000 people, and community leaders say reprisal killings by the military continue.

Visitors from the Ivory Coast joined the French IV and French V classes of Madame Hoss, Monsieur Nani, and Madame Richter-Seidenberg at Sayville High School to share their experiences.

THE one thing that proud Ivorians can agree on is that there was no civil war last year.

Ambassadors from all 15 members of the UN Security Council have paid an unprecedented visit to a refugee camp in Liberia as part of a mission to assess the situation in the region about one year after the end of a political crisis in neighbouring Cte d'Ivoire. The 15 envoys were among a 32-member UN delegation from New York to tour the PTP Refugee ... (more)

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The striker's father fully supports the player's decision to quit the Blues after their historic Uefa Champions League victory on Saturday against Bayern Munich Didier's father Albert Drogba was not in shock on Tuesday when he heard from Abidjan that his illustrious son had parted ways with Chelsea.

African Integration Minister Adama Bictogo walks with Colonel Konan Boniface after he returned from exile in Ghana, in Abidjan July 29, 2011.

Pencil vs Camera II: Ben Heine's new captivating and eye-pleasing images continue winning theme of mixing photography and pencil drawings The artist behind the innovative artwork that blends photography, pencil drawings, "imagination and reality" has released more spellbinding images on the same theme.

ABIDJAN, 22 May 2012 - Some 320,000 people in Cte d'Ivoire are grappling with hunger partly because they cannot afford the high prices of imported rice, but government efforts to bring down the cost of the staple food are so far not working well.

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Thousands of Ivorian children were separated from their parents during the post-election violence in 2011.

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FROM his lagoon-side allotment in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, Moussa Yanda has a ringside seat to watch the foundations of a $290-million toll bridge slowly rise up from the shore.

A Dancers perform a spiritual dance from Ebrie tribe in Abidjan Dance and Cultural Exchange School in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on May 18, 2012.

New York, May 19: As part of the United Nations' ongoing efforts to ensure the full restoration of constitutional rule in Mali and Guinea-Bissau, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit, will participate in an upcoming regional meeting on the political crises in the two countries.

On Thursday, 70 soldiers arrived in Guinea-Bissau as part of a peacekeeping initiative by the Economic Community of West African States .

Aliko Dangote, Nigeria's business mogul, on Tuesday in Abidjan said he was targeting theA production of 33 million tonnes of cement by 2015, with a large share going to West African countries.

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