Ivory Coast : News

[Leadership]Simone Gbagbo, wife of former Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo has been sent back to detention in the northern part of the Country. A presidential source said she was escorted back to detention by some members of staff of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire and members of the Ivorian security on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

[New Democrat]After failing in several legal proceedings to extradict eight Ivorians charged with multiple crimes in their homeland, state prosecutors yesterday finally succeeded in setting the stage for the suspected mercenaries to be sent back home for trial. (AllAfrica)

[Pambazuka]With the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Gbagbo, Ivory Coast has reverted to its old status of a French colony in fact. The hands of French, Western and UN officials drip with the blood of Ivorians (AllAfrica)

[]Museba, the Ivoiro-Congolese musician, presented her maiden single, 'Bom Bom Bom' at a press conference in Yaounde on May 6, 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard]Abidjan -The Ivorian President, Alassane Quattara,in Abidjan on Wednesday, conferred national honours on members of the victorious Elephants, winners of the 2013 Under 17 Africa Nations Cup. (AllAfrica)

[New Dawn]The Monrovia City Court at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia has granted the Liberian Government's motion to hear an extradition proceeding of eight Ivorian nationals accused of committing numerous crimes in their homeland. (AllAfrica)

[]Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that newspaper publisher Ousmane Sy Savané was finally released on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, after being held for just over 13 months on a charge of endangering state security. (AllAfrica)

[UN News]Justice is a key element of the reconciliation process in Côte d'Ivoire, a United Nations independent expert stressed today, and called on the Government to strengthen the rule of law. (AllAfrica)

[Premium Times]The Ivorian Court in Abidjan on Friday sentenced two members of the Republican Force of Cote d'Ivoire (FRCI) to a total of 17 years imprisonment for murder. (AllAfrica)

ABIDJAN 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farmers are reducing pesticide use, curbing soil erosion and water contamination and at the same time boosting yields and income thanks to certification schemes which are making their cocoa more attractive to foreign buyers, say certification companies. (irinnews.org)

LONDON 29 January 2013 (IRIN) - Concerns are being raised that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into alleged war crimes in Mali is placing a serious strain on an already over-stretched and cash-strapped institution. (irinnews.org)

ABIDJAN 04 December 2012 (IRIN) - The adoption by Côte d'Ivoire’s parliament of a law on equality between legally married couples has sparked anger, especially among religious people. For them, this law will create more problems in the home than it will solve. (irinnews.org)

KORHOGO/BOUAKE 30 November 2012 (IRIN) - After almost a decade of rebel rule, northern Côte d'Ivoire is coming to terms with a new authority as the government of President Alassane Ouattara, who assumed power some 18 months ago, establishes its presence in a region which effectively split from the rest of the country. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR 20 November 2012 (IRIN) - Health workers currently immunizing thousands of children and young adults against Meningitis A in Benin are currently doing so without having to spend days preparing ice packs and sourcing generators and fridges to load on trucks because the vaccine has now won approval for being kept at up to 40 degrees Celsius for as long as four days. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 20 November 2012 (IRIN) - Record progress in reducing the number of new HIV infections and lowering the numbers of people dying from AIDS-related causes indicate that the end of AIDS is "entirely feasible". But the epidemic is not over in any part of the world, and is gaining pace in some. (irinnews.org)

ABIDJAN/ABENGOUROU 07 November 2012 (IRIN) - Cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's largest producer, began the 2012-2013 season in October with a minimum price guaranteed by the state. This measure, part of the government’s sector-wide reforms, should stem corruption and make farmers less prone to the vagaries of international cocoa prices, giving them more financial stability so they can invest in their cocoa plantations. (irinnews.org)

ABIDJAN 22 October 2012 (IRIN) - Since a spate of attacks on Côte d’Ivoire’s army and police bases in August, several civilians have been rounded up, beaten and detained for ransom, say rights groups and ex-detainees who accuse the Côte d’Ivoire Republican Forces (FRCI – also part of the army) of violation and mistreatment. (irinnews.org)

ABIDJAN 17 October 2012 (IRIN) - Armed raids on military and police bases, a border post and other key installations in Côte d'Ivoire since August are deepening insecurity in a country struggling to forge a unified armed force to help restore stability after 2010-2011 electoral unrest. (irinnews.org)

ABIDJAN 24 August 2012 (IRIN) - When Côte d'Ivoire's five public universities reopen on 3 September, 61,000 students will arrive for the first time after almost two years since they were closed in the violent unrest sparked by the disputed 2010 presidential vote. There are fears the influx could cause chaos. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN/CONAKRY/ACCRA/DAKAR 16 August 2012 (IRIN) - Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. Most patients are from the city’s various urban slums, where open defecation is rife, toilets are rare, sewage is improperly disposed of, and awareness of cholera is very low. Water and sanitation specialists say unless these problems are addressed, cholera will continue to flourish both in Sierra Leone and throughout West Africa. (irinnews.org)

ABIDJAN 10 August 2012 (IRIN) - A recent wave of armed attacks in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, is lowering hopes of a steady return to security in a city that suffered some of the worst fighting during the 2010-11 election violence. (irinnews.org)

DUEKOUE 09 August 2012 (IRIN) - On the morning of 20 July, after an attack that killed four people around Duékoué, a town in Côte d'Ivoire's turbulent west, a huge crowd surrounded the nearby Nahibly camp hosting 5,000 internally displaced people (IDPs). (irinnews.org)

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.

This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa .

"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.

[IRIN]Wary of a backlash, Côte 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. (AllAfrica)