Cote d'Ivoire News

Although the security situation significantly improved in 2013, security conditions can change quickly and without warning.

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Forensic scientists and doctors prepare for the exhumation of a mass grave site on the grounds of a mosque, in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 4, 2013.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Security forces in Ivory Coast used teargas to disperse hundreds of students demonstrating Monday against overcrowded classrooms and empty libraries at the country's largest university, sending at least two students to the hospital with injuries, according to witnesses.

Farmers in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, say they can't sell supplies from the country's mid-crop harvest because dry weather left beans too small to meet minimum requirements.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of a 22-year-old eastern Kansas woman and her 18-month-old daughter have recovered her car and taken a man in for questioning.

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"It is important that the authorities give clear signal on their willingness to assure equity of the justice machinery," said Doudou Diene, the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Cote d'Ivoire, at the end of a visit to the country.

Barry Callebaut's latest educational infrastructure projects in Cote d'Ivoire were completed in the villages of Mossi Carrefour, located south of Divo, and in Djahakro, located northeast of San Pedro.

Ivory Coast mobile telecoms companies risk losing their licences if they do not improve their poor levels of service, a minister said on Monday.

Everyone knows that when a company gathers personal information about you, via cookies on the web or settings on your smartphone, they're likely to sell that information.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast has a ways to go before it makes a clean break from civil conflict that resurfaced in the wake of disputed 2010 elections, a rights official said.

Wary of a backlash, Cte d'Ivoire's government has hesitated to charge its own supporters of crimes committed during the 2010-2011 poll violence, something that has raised doubts about its commitment to impartial justice, say analysts.

Ivory Coast Republican Forces soldiers of the logistics battalion, part of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali, gather at the Ivory Coast's army headquarters in Abidjan before leaving for Bamako, Mali, on May 2, 2013.

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President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil... President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar ... (more)

Last week's local elections in Cte d'Ivoire were supposed to be a contest between members of the current governing coalition.

Sierra Leonean Minister of State, Finance and Economic Development, Alhaji Foday Mansaray, has called for road network among the four Mano River Union countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast.

Researchers at IBM, using movement data collected from millions of cell-phone users in Ivory Coast in West Africa, have developed a new model for optimizing an urban transportation system.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Ivory Coast's justice minister says the government is open to investigating top security officials accused by United Nations experts of raking in millions of dollars through "warlord-style predatory economic activities." Gnenema Coulibaly said on Monday that the government would need to see proof, but that "the government ... (more)