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A soldier of the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI) check weapons seized during the post-election political crisis in Ivory Coast at the military base in Abidjan, on July 12, 2012. The Ivorian government launched a new census of ex-combatants involved in the deadly post-election crisis of 2010-2011 and Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara promised to reform the army and to tackle the problem of ex-fighters, many of whom kept weapons. AFP PHOTO/ SIA KAMBOU (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)
ADAMA TOUNGARA

The European companies that armed the Ivorian civil war

AN OCCRP investigation reveals that Gunvor and Semlex brokered weapons-for-oil deals in early 2011 when Côte d’Ivoire was in crisis, despite a UN arms embargo

  • Khadija Sharife
  • Mark Anderson
  • Sana Sbouai
  • Mathieu Olivier
14 min read
ALEXANDER BORTNIKOV

Oil firm denies Putin has stake in its ownership

The secretive oil company Gunvor has broken its silence over its alleged links with Vladimir Putin, denying that the Russian President was the company’s ”beneficiary” owner.…

  • Luke Harding
4 min read