Browsing: Ivory Coast
A video widely circulated on social media featuring acts of violence against individuals, on Wednesday, triggering ethnic clashes in Abidjan and leaving ten people injured has been proven to be fake.
The team defending Guillaume Soro and his co-accused, on Tuesday, denounced in a note, what it calls a “sham” trial against their clients, in the case of “conspiracy against the security of the State” of Cote d’Ivoire.
Ivorian President Alassane called, on Wednesday in Abidjan, for forgiveness among Ivorians and the consolidation of the climate of peace in the country, on the occasion of the Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of Ramadan.
About 60 terrorists, on Thursday, attempted an incursion into the village of Bole (12 km from Kafolo) in the far north of Cote d’Ivoire, without causing any casualties.
The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, on Tuesday, announced in Abidjan that his Foundation was donating $ 10 million for the benefit of the Pan-African Inter-school Football Championship (CAF-FIFA).
A local public-private dialogue platform (PLDPP) will be set up in May in Ivory Coast’s northcentral city of Bouake.
The first stumbling block in the construction of the Abidjan Metro is evicting the populations from the sites chosen for the project, Bruno Le Maire, the French Economy and Finance Minister said on Thursday in the Ivorian economic capital.
Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara sees sirens in his ministers’ motorcades as unnecessary noise pollution and a source of public nuisance.
Six pro-Gbagbo leaders, who had gone into exile in Ghana, including Justin Kone Katinan, Damana Pikass and Jeannette Koudou, the younger sister of the former Ivorian president, are expected at Abidjan airport on Friday.
Côte d’Ivoire Terminal has announced ordering 36 electric towing vehicles from the manufacturer Gaussin to improve the second container terminal in the Port of Abidjan, a statement to APA on Thursday said.