Ivory Coast 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...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and leaders of the country's former rebel factions say the presidential election, will once again be delayed. During a visit Thursday to Yamoussoukro, President Laurent Gbagbo predicted the country's long-delayed presidential elections would once again be...

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.

A woman and two children were also injured when a van plowed into them at Washington and Kostner shortly before noon, officials said. Kim Brown, 27, of the 4900 block of West Cortez Street, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital,...