Cote d'Ivoire News

Employees work in a Jatropha field in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast in June 2008. The Jatropha produces a seed oil which can be used as diesel oil substitution.

Virtually every day I get an email whose writer has a huge sum of money to give away.

Next year will bring a profound sense of relief to the ambassador of Cote D'Ivoire in Israel, Prof.

A planned Ivory Coast gas pipeline meant to power turbines supplying electricity to a chunk of West Africa has met hot opposition from villagers who are disrupting work on it.

Marguerite Abouet's hugely popular series of books, centred on the life of a young woman in a cheerful Cote d'Ivoire suburb, show an Africa far from stereotypes of war and disease.

Sharply rising poverty is causing exploitative child labour to increase says NGO Save the Children in its report "It's there it's difficult: exploitative child labour in Cte d'Ivoire," launched today.

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Fewer children suffer acute malnutrition in northern and western Cte d'Ivoire than in recent years, but chronic malnutrition has risen to "critical levels", says a report by the government and UN.

A verdict in the High Court is expected today on the libel action brought against the BBC by British-based oil traders Trafigura , reports the Guardian .

Nearly three years from the signing of a peace agreement in Cote d'Ivoire, emergency operations are slowing but humanitarian needs remain, aid workers say.

Update: BBC withdraws allegation that dumping of toxic waste "caused deaths" The Akouedo dump in Abidjan, where toxic waste was dumped in March 2006 by a Trafigura-operated cargo ship.

UN refugee agency reports half of the world's 10.5 million refugees and nearly 20 million of internally displaced people and returnees are living in cities Lisa Schlein Geneva UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, left, next to Jose Riera, right, HCR Secretary, opens a two-day United Nations conference trying to boost support for ...

The primates combine these calls into long vocal sequences which allow them to convey messages about social cohesion or various dangers, including predation.

In certain parts of Africa, female genital mutilation has been linked to religion, with Muslim communities mistakenly believing that the practice is a religious requirement.

Half of the world's 10.5 million refugees are living in urban centres, driving up living costs and increasing the risk of tension with local populations, the United Nations refugee agency said on Monday.

From the slums of Kabul to the shanties of Damascus, more than half of the world's refugees are now scraping by on tiny strips of land in increasingly overcrowded, overburdened cities.

A government committee set up to reorganize the cocoa business in Ivory Coast , the worlda s biggest producer of the chocolate ingredient, recommended that private companies have a reduced role in the industry, said an official with knowledge of the proposals.

ATWOOD'S DEPARTMENT store was a fixture in downtown Upland for most of the 20th century.

In CA te d'Ivoire destitute children - " particularly girls selling sex to survive - " urgently need shelters where they can receive care and support, says a local NGO monitoring girls who sell vegetables by day, sex by night.

The first round of the Ivorian presidential e lection will take place between the end of February and the beginning of March 2010, the Permanent Consultation Fra mework on the Ivorian crisis announced here Thursday evening.