Côte d'Ivoire

Type: Country

Name: Côte d'Ivoire

population: 19,072,130

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 9 mins ago - 2 reports

Cocoa Falls to Six-Week Low on Ivory Coast Rains; Coffee Drops

May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Cocoa fell to the lowest in six weeks in New York on speculation rainfall in top grower Ivory Coast will boost prospects for the crop. Coffee slid.Growing areas in West Africa, the main producing region, got rain last week, with ... [Published La Repubblica - 9 mins ago]

Entities: Cocoa, Côte d'Ivoire, Short Ton, Coffee

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 10 mins ago - 2 reports

Cote d'Ivoire: Rape Plagues Ivory Coast Long After Conflict's End

Bouake, Ivory Coast Two years since Ivory Coast's post-election violence came to an end, rape remains a problem throughout the country. Though such attacks are now occurring outside the context of armed conflict, they show that the security situation ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 10 mins ago]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, Bouake, Rape, Laurent Gbagbo, Sexual Violence

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 24 mins ago - 2 reports

Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday s attacks in Niger. ... [Published Great China Brokerage Ltd - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Niger, Algeria, Amenas, Al-Qaeda-linked

First reported 32 mins ago - Updated 32 mins ago - 1 reports

Alassane Ouattara

Monkey Business in Cote d'Ivoire

Two years after French-led forces brought Allassane Ouattara to power, he is not yet in control of the country. Rebels run a parallel taxation system and looting of the country's resources is in top gearThere is a saying in West Africa which describes ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 32 mins ago]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, Laurent Gbagbo, Niger, Mamadou Tandja

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Plastics

ABIDJAN BANS PLASTIC BAGS

Plastic bags will be banned for six months in the Ivory Coast after a bill adopted by the cabinet is put in force. The decree bans the production, import, sale and use of plastic bags nationwide. The announcement was made by a government spokesman, Bruno ... [Published Misna - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Plastics, Abidjan, Mauritania, Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Laurent Gbagbo

Fatou Bensouda, are you neutral?

RNW recently spoke to Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She is currently preparing the court's first trial of a head of state: Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast.Gbagbo is charged with crimes ... [Published Radio Netherlands - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Fatou Bensouda, Laurent Gbagbo, International Criminal Court, Côte d'Ivoire

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 reports

Ivorian student anger mounts over universities' revamp

shows students getting onto a packed bus after classes at Felix Houphouet-Boigny University in Abidjan's Cocody district. PHOTO | AFPLast year’s reopening of Cote d'Ivoire's universities was a grand affair, turning the page on a bloody leadership crisis ... [Published Africa Review - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Anger, Abidjan, Ibrahima Cisse

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 reports

Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire most vibrant economies in sub-region – US envoy

The US Ambassador to Ghana, Gene A. Cretz, has identified Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire as two of West Africa’s most vibrant and important economies.Speaking at the inauguration of the 5th Border Information Centre, he said the centres were set up to tackle ... [Published GhanaHomePage - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, United States Agency For International Development, Ghana

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 3 reports

Repatriation of refugees from Liberia to C?te d'Ivoire picks...

ABIDJAN, C½te d'Ivoire, May 23 - Two years after the end of C½te d'Ivoire's brief civil war, growing numbers of refugees have been returning to the country since January after violence last year slowed the rate of returns. ... [Published Liberia News - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Repatriation, Liberia, Refugees

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Ivory Coast Finding Reconstruction...

Abidjan At first glance, Ivory Coast has come a long way since 2010's post-election violence. But is the progress merely an illusion?Construction sites loom at every twist and turn of the super six-lane highways that weave around the $bri$ lagoon in the ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, Laurent Gbagbo, Abidjan, Human Rights Violations

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Ivory Coast Power Utility Plans Exports as Profit Grows

Ivory Coast’s electricity monopoly, which has a stock that’s soared 95 percent in the past year, will increase exports as rising domestic demand boosts profit amid an economic recovery in the world’s biggest cocoa producer.Ivory Coast’s capacity is 1,421 ... [Published Bloomberg - May 23 2013]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Emerging Capital Partners, Ghana

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

After 50 Years of the OAU-AU: Time to Strengthen the Conflict Intervention Framework

2013 marks 50 years since the birth of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which became the African Union (AU) in 2002. This week, as the continent’s leaders and other Africanists meet to commemorate this special occasion, it is also the appropriate ... [Published Brookings Institution - May 22 2013]

Entities: Interference, Framework, Organization of African Unity

Quotes

"It's certainly someone who knew me and knew this house. I don't know them. But they've clearly watched me come and go" he said

Cote d'Ivoire: Rape Plagues Ivory Coast Long After Conflict's End [Published AllAfrica.com - 10 mins ago]

There is a saying in West Africa which describes the current power of Alassane Ouattara over the people of the Ivory Coast - "Quand un singe monte tr$s haut dans un arbre on finit par voir son cul." (When a monkey climbs high up a tree he ends up showing the world his ass.)

Monkey Business in Cote d'Ivoire [Published AllAfrica.com - 32 mins ago]

Ali Laarayedh expressed thanks to the AfDB, "a pre-eminent institution for its constant support that has gone from strength to strength after the revolution, and that we hope will continue."

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP : AfDB President Commends Tunisian Hospitality [Published 4 Traders - 1 hour ago]

"More rain in the Ivory Coast was seen as beneficial for the mid-crop there" Arthur Liming, a futures specialist at Citigroup Inc. in Chicago, said in a report e-mailed yesterday

Cocoa Falls to One-Week Low on Ivory Coast Rains; Sugar Advances [Published BusinessWeek - 2 hours ago]

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ABIDJAN BANS PLASTIC BAGS [Published Misna - 1 hour ago]
Fatou Bensouda, are you neutral? [Published Radio Netherlands - 1 hour ago]
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Blogs

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The BBC journalist who believed he was possesse... [Published Media: Greenslade \| guardian.co.uk - 4 hours ago] A couple of years ago I wrote about the medical drama faced by Malcolm Brabant , then the BBC's Athens-based stringer. He had suffered a massive reaction after taking a vaccine that was supposed to protect him from yellow fever. After an initial ...
Repatriation of refugees from Liberia to C?te d... [Published Liberia News - 12 hours ago] ABIDJAN, C½te d'Ivoire, May 23 - Two years after the end of C½te d'Ivoire's brief civil war, growing numbers of refugees have been returning to the country since January after violence last year slowed the rate of returns. ...
After 50 Years of the OAU-AU: Time to Strengthe... [Published Brookings Up Front - May 22 2013] 2013 marks 50 years since the birth of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which became the African Union (AU) in 2002. This week, as the continent’s leaders and other Africanists meet to commemorate this special occasion , it is also the appropriate ...
War Crimes Prosecution Watch: Vol. 8, Issue 3 –... [Published Impunity Watch - May 22 2013] INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Central African Republic & Uganda BembaTrial.org: Bemba Trial Stalls Due to Absence of Defense Witness BembaTrial.org: Bozizé Soldier Says Rebels Committed Atrocities BembaTrial.org: Bozizé Soldier Did Not Hear of Crimes ...
Appy birthdays [Published Baobab - The Economist - May 21 2013] CÔTE D’IVOIRE may be one of the few places where birther conspiracies run hotter than in America. For decades, opponents of the president, Alassane Ouattara, have accused him of hailing from neighboring Burkina Faso. They successfully exploited the ...

Audio/Video

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2012 Review of Nigeria's BRVM Market [Published ABN Digital - YouTube - Apr 30 2013]
Ivory Coast election poll seen as trial run [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 21 2013]
Ivorians head to polls for local elections [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 21 2013]
Ambassador Rice Comments on Mali, Cote d'Ivoire... [Published US Department of State - YouTube Channel - Apr 04 2013]
'Ivory Coast must target impunity' [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 04 2013]

Press Releases

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Spice Unveils 5 Inch ICS Based 3G Smartphone - ... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 18 2013]
Research and Markets: Cote d'Ivoire Oil and Gas... [Published Business Wire Energy News - May 13 2013]
The AfDB Strengthens Its 2013-2017 Assistance S... [Published AfDB - News & Events - May 08 2013]
Barry Callebaut inaugurates new rural primary s... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - May 07 2013]
The Goodness Company Announces Sponsorship of A... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 04 2013]