Gunfire erupted in Abidjan on Wednesday as Côte d’Ivoire’s new government forces tried to dislodge militia loyal to deposed president Laurent Gbagbo.

Thousands of supporters of Côte d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo were holding an overnight rally in Abijdan on Sunday.

African mediators left Côte d’Ivoire without a breakthrough in the West African nation’s presidential vote crisis.

Troops loyal to isolated Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo sealed off roads to the hotel that houses Alassane Ouattara’s rival government on Monday.

Mediators looked to have secured an end to Côte d’Ivoie’s political crisis on Monday after the key players agreed to salvage a political accord.

Guinea’s isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a UN inquiry into a massacre of opposition demonstrators last month.

Côte d’Ivoire was under an arms embargo on Tuesday after a unanimous vote in the United Nations Security Council aiming to quell a new wave of unrest that has convulsed the…

South African President Thabo Mbeki was on Tuesday to meet his Côte d’Ivoire counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked…

ELEPHANTS are seen as a fundamental part of west Africa’s cultural heritage, but their numbers have dwindled so fast that they risk soon being consigned to memory, conservation…