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Saturday | The Washington Post

Ivory Coast to Set Up $80 Million Fund for Cocoa Purchases

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.

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Wed Feb 08, 2012

IRIN

Cote D'Ivoire: Leprosy fight still flagging

DIMBOKRO/TOUMODI, 8 February 2012 - Cte d'Ivoire's leprosy programme was consistently under-funded during the civil war and last year's political turmoil, say health practitioners, leading to a loss of expertise in terms of detecting or treating the disease.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Nursing, Medicine

Reuters

UPDATE 1-Exporters, I.Coast move toward cocoa reform accord

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.

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Related Topix: World News

Mon Feb 06, 2012

PR-inside.com

Now Available: Rialto Energy Limited (RIA) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

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.

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Fri Feb 03, 2012

United Nations

In C te d'Ivoire, UN mission to decide on election certification next week

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.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News,

Wall Street Journal

Getting Inside Someone Else's Head

As a fiction writer, I get to tell lies and pretend that they're real. It's not unlike being a politician or an investment banker, except with less money and power.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Thu Feb 02, 2012

Crofs Blogs

Cote d'Ivoire: Meningitis spreads as people scramble for vaccine

Eleven people have died from meningitis out of 40 reported cases in four departments across CA te d'Ivoire as of 31 January, leaving people scrambling to access the vaccine for their families.

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GhanaWeb

UN commends Ghanaian peacekeeping contingent in Cote d'Ivoire

Accra, Feb. 2, GNA - The United Nations has lauded the Ghanaian Military Contingent In La Cote d'Ivoire for the high standard of professionalism and selfless sacrifices, which contributed in ensuring peaceful legislative elections, and the relative peace in the country.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Ghana

Wed Feb 01, 2012

Voice of America

Ivorian Opposition Welcomes Court Election Ruling

Deisire Boussi, spokesman for Gbagbo's party, says the court annulment proves there is no true democracy in Ivory Coast Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara waves next to French president Nicolas Sarkozy on May 21, 2011 at the airport in Yamoussoukro Ivory Coast's high court has overturned the election of 11 members of parliament from President ... (more)

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Related Topix: Nicolas Sarkozy, Laurent Gbagbo, Africa, World News, Ivor, VA

Tue Jan 31, 2012

Iol.co.za

Eleven poll results annulled in Abidjan

Abidjan - 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.

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Related Topix: World News, Laurent Gbagbo

PR-inside.com

la Mancha Discovers a Mineralized Structure Extending Over an 800M Strike Length at Sissedougou

NEWS RELEASE Paris, January 31, 2012 LA MANCHA DISCOVERS A MINERALIZED STRUCTURE EXTENDING OVER 800M AT SISSEDOUGOU Cote d'Ivoire exploration results confirm potential of two properties: * Sissedougou * Excellent drill results suggest the presence of an 800-metre long mineralized structure * High grades were intersected over widths of up to 34 ... (more)

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Reuters

UPDATE 2-Exporters say boycott landmark I.Coast cocoa auction

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.

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PR-inside.com

Sweet Product NV: Stollwerck and Baronie Supporting 'Farmer Field Schools' Projects

Cocoa Farmers in Cote d'Ivoire to Be Trained in Sustainable Cocoa Farming in Cooperation With Cargill COLOGNE, GERMANY and VEURNE, BELGIUM and AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS-- - The Dutch-Belgian chocolate manufacturer Baronie and the long-standing German company Stollwerck -- both subsidiaries of Belgium's Sweet Products Group -- are now supporting an ... (more)

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Mon Jan 30, 2012

AllAfrica.com

Cote d'Ivoire: Separated Children Yet to Return Home

Man - Hundreds of children in Cte d'Ivoire were separated from their parents when people fled their villages during post-election violence in 2011, but nine months after the conflict formally ended only a quarter of those children have been reunified with their families, says the UN Children's Fund .

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Liberia, Laurent Gbagbo

In-depth Africa

African Dictators: Can't Run, Can't Hide! Alemayehu G. Mariam

The International Criminal Court is on the chase; and over the past few months, things have taken a slow turn for the worse for African dictators and human rights violators.

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In-depth Africa

Cote d'Ivoire: UN expert urges creation of peaceful and secure ...

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)

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Laurent Gbagbo

Sat Jan 28, 2012

Xtra!

Gay asylum seekers live in fear and uncertainty in Paris

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Fri Jan 27, 2012

Ghanamma.com

Cote d'Ivoire: Ouattara Calls for French Investment

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Friday urged French companies to resume investing in the west African country less than a year after his predecessor was ousted in a bloody conflict.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Laurent Gbagbo, Nicolas Sarkozy

Thu Jan 26, 2012

United Nations

C te d'Ivoire: Security improving but root causes of unrest remain - " UN envoy

The security situation in Cote d'Ivoire is stabilizing nine months after the end of the violence that shook the country following presidential elections in late 2010, but the underlining causes of instability and unrest have not been fully addressed, the United Nations top official in the West African country told the Security Council today.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

The Miami Herald

Ivory Coast chief to sign defense pact with Paris

The presidents of France and Ivory Coast met Thursday after the African leader arrived here for a three-day visit that is due to include the signing of a defense pact in the wake of post-election violence in his country.

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Related Topix: World News, Nicolas Sarkozy, Netherlands,

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