France asked its citizens to leave Côte d’Ivoire and the World Bank froze funding to the country on Wednesday, as a power struggle deepened.
Allies of presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara have urged Ivorians to join a new march through Abidjan to seize the state broadcaster’s building.
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday backed Alassane Ouattara as the winner of Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed November 28 presidential election.
Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo was ahead in an election, the electoral commission said on Thursday, but he will face a run-off vote.
Iraqi Kurds voted on Saturday in polls expected to keep President Masoud Barzani in power and unlikely to allay voters’ worries about corruption.
Iraq regained full control of its towns and cities on Tuesday as US troops pulled back, six years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
Over the years I have attempted to describe higher education using a variety of metaphors and concepts, some more demeaning than others.
For Iraqis, it’s a vision of what Baghdad could be — a colourful lakeside resort where children can swim and strollers take in the sunset.
Two suicide bombers killed 16 police recruits and wounded 30 others at a security post north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military said.
The United States military fired rockets at a target near a hospital in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding 20 people. No patients were wounded at the hospital in the Sadr City stronghold of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, but 20 people at the scene of the blasts were wounded.