By Godfred Zina In October 2025, two of Africa’s longest-serving leaders – Cameroon’s 92-year-old Paul Biya and Ivory Coast’s 83-year-old Alassane Ouattara – secured yet another...
By Godfred Zina After emerging from the ashes of the 2010–11 post-election violence – a crisis that left over 3,000 dead and deepened national fractures –...
By Godfred Zina As ballots are tallied in Cameroon and tensions mount ahead of Ivory Coast’s pivotal vote later this month, two of West and Central...
By Godfred Zina Across Africa, a troubling pattern is emerging – one that threatens the hard-won gains of democratic governance over the past three decades. In...
By Godfred Zina Recent rumors of a potential coup in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) have sparked political unease and raised broader questions about governance, transparency, and...
Reuters | Former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam has renounced his French citizenship to meet eligibility conditions for Ivory Coast’s presidential election in October, as his...
Bloomberg | Former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam has won his bid to lead Ivory Coast’s opposition in presidential elections scheduled for 2025. Results of a...
AFP | Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) reported a fresh discovery of offshore oil and natural gas by Italian firm Eni on Thursday, expanding the potential of...
Reuters | Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and longtime rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in an effort...
Reuters | Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) President Alassane Ouattara has named Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, governor of the West African central bank, as his vice president in...
In many cases, the ICC’s pattern of inconsistently pursuing cases has also made it seem like a partisan institution among post-conflict communities, a perception that politicizes...
Ouattara, has officially welcomed Gbagbo's return, seeing it as a key to easing the country's entrenched problems.
AFP | Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, who returned home last month a decade after falling from power, will meet ex-president Henri Konan Bedie this...
Gbagbo was acquitted in 2019, after prosecutors failed to prove their case.
Gbagbo plans to return to Ivory Coast on June 17 after ICC acquittal
Ivory Coast’s incumbent President Alassane Ouattara won a landslide victory and a second 5-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Monday he would push for constitutional reform if he his re-elected this week to scrap a nationality clause that...
The presidential election in the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) has been set for October 25 this year – a crucial step toward overcoming a decade of...
Prominent members of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara’s main coalition partner on Thursday rejected a deal by their party’s leader to support Ouattara’s bid for re-election...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. PHOTO/File Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday received the endorsement of former president Henri Konan Bedie for re-election...
Côte d’Ivoire awarded 294 billion CFA francs ($617.87 million) worth of public procurement, nearly 43 percent last year’s total by value, via no-bid contracts according to...
Thousands of Ivorians flooded the streets on Sunday to welcome back President Alassane Ouattara after a month of medical treatment in France. Ouattara, who came...
(Reuters) – At least 61 people were crushed to death in a stampede after a New Year’s Eve fireworks display at a stadium in Ivory Coast’s...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. PHOTO/Reuters/Charles Platiau Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara dissolved his Cabinet on Wednesday, officials said, in a sudden and surprising turn of...
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) President Alassane Ouattara‘s party won a parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections, the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission said early Friday. The...
Laurent Gbagbo. PHOTO/Sia Kambou / AFP – Getty Images Ivory Coast’s ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo was set Tuesday to be transferred to the International Criminal Court...
Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, expects to raise its output this year to the point that it could account for half of the world’s...
Laurent Gbagbo and his wife charged with crimes ranging from armed robbery to looting.
