Cote d'Ivoire News

The deputy chief of the World Bank for Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili visits a test coca plantation in Tanokro, Ivory Coast, yesterday during a two-day visit to the country TANOKRO: The World Bank has ordered ...

Two recent developments in francophone Africa have set the stage for wider broadcast liberalisation.

L'actualite de Cote d'Ivoire writes that twelve people, including the head of Tommy, a local waste processing company, are set to appear before a court in Abidjan later this month; they are charged with ...

DAKAR, 2 September 2008 - The International Committee of the Red Cross has launched a nutritional feeding programme at the main prison in Abidjan after the incidence of beriberi, a sickness linked to vitamin ...

Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria Plc, Mr. Offong Ambah, has said the Ecobank Group is determined to build a truly Pan African bank as plans have been concluded to commence operations in seven additional ...

Darlington is having a rough time. In fact, life is so bad, he calls himself, the Crying Orphan.

A red triangle with a skull and cross bones symbol gives the first indication that this area on the outskirts of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan is no rural idyll.

Resolution 1721, adopted unanimously last week in New York, gives President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny another year in office; this is in a bid to have authorities disarm militias and ...

Fulgence Zamble Abidjan Human rights organisations are wary of a new law against xenophobia, racism and tribalism adopted by the Ivorian parliament.

A red triangle with a skull and cross bones symbol gives the first indication that this area on the outskirts of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan is no rural idyll.

Security in the volatile west of Cote d'Ivoire, the world's biggest cocoa producer, has improved ahead of elections due in November, but local people still fear the hidden presence of armed militiamen.

The United Nations mission in Cote d'Ivoire today launched a $5 million project to speed the reintegration of ex-combatants from the country's civil war, as well as young people at risk.

ABIDJAN: The first shipment of material to make new voter registration cards has arrived in Ivory Coast, a French company said yesterday, in an important step forward for elections that have been repeatedly ...

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Wednesday is scheduled to arrive in Cote d'Ivoire, where he will visit projects aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, AFP/Google.com reports.

The Ivorian Ministry of Health has confirmed 19 people have been infected with yellow fever since May, while the World Health Organisation warns Cote d'Ivoire is at an "elevated" risk of yellow fever epidemics.

Tens of thousands of people in Ivory Coast are still suffering serious health problems two years after toxic waste was dumped there, a United Nations human rights expert said on Friday.

Main Category: Tropical Diseases Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 10 Aug 2008 The Ministry of Health of Cote d'Ivoire has declared a yellow fever outbreak in the capital, ...

The sites around Cote d'Ivoire's biggest city where hundreds of tons of toxic waste were illegally dumped two years ago have still not been decontaminated and continue to threaten the health of residents, a ...

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to Laurent Gbagbo, president of Cote d'Ivoire, on the occasion of his country's National Day.

Bon Voyage to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo! Good luck to all the Philippine athletes TO personally lend the much needed morale support to our competing athletes, President ...