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Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term in office in an election characterized by low voter turnout and deserted streets in the country’s economic hub, Abidjan. Provisional results released Monday show Ouattara, 83, claiming 89.7% of the vote. Jean-Louis Billon, a former commerce minister from one of the nation’s wealthiest families, trailed…
Ivory Coast’s presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigns Thursday as the tense...
Placide Konan, a 33-year-old slam poet in Abidjan, has turned his art into a form of resistance,...
President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast has called on the nation’s youth to come out...
More than a decade after she was dragged from a bunker alongside her then-husband, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo is attempting a dramatic return to power. Once branded the...
Authorities in Ivory Coast arrested at least 237 people on Saturday as police moved to break up a banned protest denouncing what activists described as the country’s slide toward authoritarian rule....
Militants linked to Al-Qaeda have opened a new front in Mali’s conflict by striking at the country’s fuel lifeline. Over the weekend, fighters belonging to Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin...
Thousands flooded the streets of Abidjan on Saturday, rallying against the exclusion of key opposition figures from Ivory Coast’s October presidential election. The demonstration, according to an...
A major opposition party in Ivory Coast is raising alarm over what it describes as politically motivated detentions, accusing the government of targeting its members ahead of the country’s contentious...
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has announced he will seek a fourth term in office, a move critics fear signals a return to authoritarian-style leadership in a region already grappling...
Defying heavy downpours, thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Abidjan on Saturday to protest the disqualification of opposition figure Tidjane Thiam from Ivory Coast’s upcoming presidential...
Ivory Coast health authorities have declared a cholera outbreak in the capital’s outskirts, reporting seven deaths and dozens of infections within days. This has reignited fears of a larger health...

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