A seven-day journey across Côte d’Ivoire reveals cocoa towns, coastal escapes, living history and cultural traditions carried carefully across generations

Côte d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister, Charles Konan Banny, on Wednesday announced the resumption of preparations for long-postponed elections in the divided country under his new…

Army and rebel officials in Côte d’Ivoire have agreed to begin disarming by late September, just one month before crucial October 30 presidential elections, officials said on…

South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday for talks with President Laurent Gbagbo, the latest bid to resolve the long-standing conflict in the…

Protagonists in Côte d’Ivoire’s two years of conflict were meeting on Monday in the capital, Yamoussoukro, to wrap up preparations for a long-awaited disarmament campaign set to…

Members of Ivory Coast’s main opposition party who are named in a new unity government will not participate in the first cabinet session on Thursday due to security concerns in…

West African peace-makers struggled to hold together a cease-fire deal on Friday in rebellion-divided Ivory Coast — while rebels accused loyalists of readying their…

Ivory Coast troops and mutineers were battling on Tuesday for control of the rebel-held central city of Bouake, where machine-gun bullets flew within meters of terrified foreign…

Rebel soldiers have fired direct shots at an international boarding school in Ivory Coast’s second city Bouake, where some 170 foreign schoolchildren have been trapped since an…

They walk slowly but steadily, hundreds of people filing along a grass-fringed road under an energy-sapping sun. They carry their most precious and necessary belongings in bags,…