Cote d'Ivoire News

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.

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.

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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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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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.

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.

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)

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.

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)

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.

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)

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 .

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.

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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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.

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.

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.