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France’s minister of Armed forces Sébastien Lecornu revealed Monday in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, that the European country is going to review its presence in Africa, a traditional continent where it is facing a growing rejection. Lecornu met with President Alassane Ouattara Monday upon demand by President Emmanuel Macron who has ordered a “review of France’s […]
Algeria has flashed out in recent days close to 900 sub-Saharan migrants as the country closes ears to criticism of its inhuman expulsion of Africans abandoned, unattended in the desert at the border with Niger. Exactly 899 migrants from 16 southern Saharan countries were deported by Algerian authorities on February 12, said Alarm Phone Sahara, […]
Ivorian authorities announced Wednesday re-opening on February 15 of the country’s land borders closed since March 2020 in a move to curtail the spread of COVID-19 virus. Amadou Coulibaly, Government spokesperson, made the announcement following a cabinet meeting held on Wednesday. Amadou Koné, the Minister of Communication, indicated that the move comes especially after the […]
The Court of Appeal of Abidjan has confirmed a previous condemnation to life imprisonment ruled in July 2021 against former Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament Guillaume Soro on charges of plot and attempt to remove the administration of President Alassan Ouattara. The court, however, acquitted two of 11 other defendants and dissolved Générations et […]
Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d’Ivoire’s ex-leader, has called on regional grouping ECOWAS to establish counter-terrorism brigade to curtail terrorism that has plagued the region. Gbagbo was speaking at a meeting of his party PPA-CI, at Bayota, a town in south-central Ivory Coast. “The problem in the Sahel today is the jihadists,” he said. For a 77-year […]
Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Côte d’Ivoire after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach in March 2016. Of the eleven defendants, all Malians, seven were not present in court to hear the […]
Although Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s top cocoa producing country, accounting for around 45% of the global cocoa beans production, the country receives just 4% of the chocolate industry’s estimated annual returns worth $100bn. Being on the “front lines of the climate crisis,” cocoa farmers in the region harvests suffer, so do their livelihoods, according […]
Côte d’Ivoire is set to inaugurate its solar energy plant, the country’s energy Director announced Thursday, adding that over 7,000 green energy projects are being developed. “After having experimented fossil fuels and hydroelectricity, Côte d’Ivoire, which is rich in renewable energy potential, is about to commission its first solar power plant, marking its intention to […]
The US Development agency USAID has donated to Côte d’Ivoire more than 2 million doses of Pfizer to help the West African country to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The US embassy in capital Abidjan said in a statement that the vaccines will support the efforts of authorities to vaccinate 52 per cent of the population, […]
Tunisia and Cote d’Ivoire’s Chambers of Commerce and Industry signed last Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bolster trade relations between the two countries as the North African country seeks to conquer the West African country’s market. The deal signed by Faman Touré and Ali ben Taher, respectively Presidents of Cote d’Ivoire Chamber of […]