Abidjan 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...

Didier Drogba has withdrawn from the Ivory Coast's World Cup qualifier against Guinea on Saturday through injury, the Ivorian Football Federation has said. The Chelsea striker stayed behind in London for treatment after he was kicked in the chest by...

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.