Cote d'Ivoire News

Campaigners fear lobbying by industry and farmers' unions will weaken plans to limit role of food crops in biofuels production Employees work in a Jatropha nursery field in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast.

About a third of Cote d'Ivoire's cashew nuts are smuggled abroad every year, robbing the country of a valuable income stream.

Sunny Ntayombya is a journalist and blogger working with a Rwandan English newspaper.

A drive by Ivory Coast authorities to reclaim land in national parks on which about 2,000 farmers have planted crops could hurt output of cocoa in the world's top producing nation, exporters said.

BollorA©'s winning proposal to build a second container terminal at the Port of Abidjan in Ivory Coast violates the nation's competition law, according to Jean-Louis Billon, the country's minister of commerce, Bloomberg Businessweek reports .

The former Ivorian Minister, whose extradition case is ongoing at a court in Accra, has indicated that he would be killed by the Ivorian authorities if he is extradited from Ghana.

"Although the basis of the democratic reconstruction in Cote d'Ivoire is in place and the social and economic recovery is under way, the country is facing a profound political fragmentation," the Independent Expert on the human rights situation in the country, Doudou Diene, told the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.

Camair-Co increased its regional coverage from its base in Douala in Cameroon on 4 June with the launch of services to the Ivoirian city of Abidjan .

Abidjan - An Abidjan court has charged the youth leader of former president Laurent Gbagbo's party with plotting to destabilise the state, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, June 11 Russia's largest privately held oil company LUKoil has acquired a 65 percent stake in an oil exploration and production project at block CI-504 off Cote d'Ivoire in the Gulf of Guinea, LUKoil said on Tuesday.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast A government spokesman in Ivory Coast says that authorities had arrested a youth leader from former President Laurent Gbagbo's political party on suspicion that he was involved in "destabilization activities" last month.

Frustration with the International Criminal Court is growing in Ivory Coast following Monday's decision that gave prosecutors more time to build their case against former President Laurent Gbagbo.

The International Criminal Court has delayed a decision on whether it will put former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on trial for crimes against humanity.

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb.

Paris, May 30 : Bilal Habib from India was Thursday named as one of the six winners of the Young Scientist Awards instituted by the Unesco.

That the child is father of the man may be particularly true for Africa and its 'fathers of independence'. This is the case not only because half a century after the continent's accession to sovereignty, Africa still bears scars of its childhood diseases - the lack of institutional capacity, to name but one - but also because the 'fathers' didn't ... (more)

Arthur Porter now sits in a Panamanian jail, waiting for extradition to Canada where he faces criminal charges including conspiracy, money laundering and fraud.

State House press release -We are dealing with such hideous and second rate characters in Nigeria's public space, belonging to the ACN and the CPC, and that other would-be disaster-prone mongrel called APC that they won't even respect the truth.

As the afternoon sun glinted off the waters in Ivory Coast's port of Abidjan, a team of gendarmes set out in a leaky wooden pirogue with no weapons and nothing more than mobile phones for communication.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - New documents on logging permits in Ghana indicate most timber exported from the country is likely illegal, exposing purchasers to possible jail time under a new European Union regulation, the environmental watchdog group Global Witness said Tuesday.