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The Vice-President of Côte d’Ivoire, Daniel Kablan Duncan, 77, has resigned from his post. The announcement was made on Monday July 13 by presidential secretary-general Patrick Achi, as the country mourns the Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly who passed away on July 8. “Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan submitted his resignation to the President of […]
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Wednesday ordered Côte d’Ivoire to suspend its arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro and to release 19 of his relatives who have been imprisoned for four months. The African Union institution based in Arusha, Tanzania, which had been seized in early March by Mr. Soro, former […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a loan of €62.35 million to Côte d’Ivoire, the bank said in a statement. The funds are intended to finance the Project for the Strengthening of Electrical System Works and Access to Electricity (Proser). The AfDB grant will help finance the electrification of 1,388 rural localities in the […]
President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire has put an end to months of suspense and speculation Thursday when he announced that he will not seek a third term at the helm of his country. “I would like to solemnly announce that I will not be a candidate in the October 31, 2020 presidential election […]
The Algerian rulers have always denied their direct involvement in the Sahara, but their scathing diplomatic move made against Côte d’Ivoire after it opened a Consulate in the Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune shows clearly that they are the main stakeholder in the Sahara conflict. The Algerian authorities, the real puppeteers of the Polisario separatist […]
Côte d’Ivoire has inaugurated this Tuesday a consulate general in the Moroccan Southern city of Laayoune, after it set up a honorary consulate in the city in June last year. The opening ceremony of the consular representation was chaired by the Ivorian Minister for African Integration and Ivorian Expatriates, Ally Coulibaly, in the presence […]
Côte d’Ivoire’s former president Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday asked the International Criminal Court a release without conditions while awaiting the prosecution’s appeal against his acquittal. Gbagbo, the first former head of state ever to stand trial at the ICC, and his aide Charles Ble Goude were cleared on 15 January 2019 over involvement in […]
Standard Chartered which has recently released its Trade20 Index, identifying the 20 world economies with the greatest potential for commercial growth, has listed three African countries as rising stars of global trade. These are Côte d’Ivoire (top), Kenya (3rd) and Ghana (13th). The study, which examined 66 markets around the world, found that while existing […]
In Côte d’Ivoire, Banque Atlantique, a subsidiary of Morocco’s Banque Centrale Populaire Group, has provided a loan of 32.5 billion CFA francs to the Yamoussoukro road infrastructure rehabilitation project. The loan was attributed to FPO Africa, one of the leading local construction companies in Côte d’Ivoire as part of a public-private partnership (PPP) with the […]
The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said her office would appeal the acquittal of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. The Hague-based court acquitted ex-President Laurent Gbagbo earlier this year. He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 […]