Abidjan Politics News

J eremy Toulalan scored an own goal in stoppage time to hand Olympique Marseille a 5-5 draw at Olympique Lyon in a spectacular Ligue 1 game on Sunday after leaders Girondins Bordeaux had slumped to a 2-0 defeat at Lille....

Senegal — Thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement thanks to the maneuverings by a shadowy but “influential” figure in Ivory Coast , where the dumping occurred, the victims’...

Former Ivorian prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara declared his candidacy for the country's long-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled for November. Filing his candidacy at the country's Independent Electoral Commission, Mr. Ouattara, more commonly known as Ado, pledged to run...

The oil trading company Trafigura had agreed to pay $45m (£27m) to 30,000 victims in an out-of-court settlement. Claude Ghourou had argued he should be given responsibility for distributing the money via a local organisation. Trafigura had agreed to pay...

The report concerns illnesses suffered by thousands of Abidjan locals. It suggests their likely cause was the release of potentially lethal gas after chemicals were dumped...It says it was a list of possible outcomes rather than a study based on...

A UN report accuses both the rebel-held north and the government-controlled south of stocking up on weapons, a month before a presidential election. It also says neighbouring Burkina Faso is systematically transferring weapons and ammunition to the rebels.

The Ivory Coast is seeking to restructure around 2 billion euros of debt with commercial creditors and may launch its new bonds as early as this year, the chair of the restructuring committee said. The move would be the latest...

We can say, in that myth seems to have a cancer around this stalemate for more than 3 years endangers the peace of honest citizens to whom all things were made. Does it need the intervention of God from the...