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The independent Roman daily "Domani" managed, in collaboration with the British newspaper "The Guardian" and the Italian TV channel RAI News, to obtain documents transcribing wiretaps from 2017. These documents are in the possession of the prosecutor's office Trapani, in Sicily, prove the inertia at the Libyan Coast Guard in the face of migrants' shipwrecks in their territorial waters.…

On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the ICC Board of Appeal reaffirmed the decision to acquit war crimes and crimes against humanity in favor of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé. After more than ten years of proceedings before the ICC, the former Ivorian president and his former youth minister, who live in Belgium and the Netherlands respectively, are therefore cleared. The question now arises as to their…

The information came to the headlines in the Ivorian press this Tuesday morning, March 30: "FACI, the armed forces on the Ivory Coast, are routing the attackers," Fraternité Matin exclaims."What happened in Kafolo and Kolobougou," says L'Intelligent. L'Intelligent, which takes up the army's statement that "during the night from Sunday to Monday, two FACI positions were hit by armed attacks. The first occurred in Kafolo and…

On November 6, 2004, two Soukhoï Su-25s from the Ivorian army bombed the French base in Bouaké. Results: 9 French soldiers and one American civilian killed and 38 French soldiers wounded. The aircraft was piloted by Belarusian mercenaries and was assisted by Ivorian co-pilots. Defendants who will be absent from this trial. More than 16 years after the events, the victims especially want to understand why France ordered the alleged perpetrators of this murderous attack to go away after the Togolese authorities arrested…

Ivory Coast will play well on the 24th CAN in its history. Thanks to Serge Aurier's first goal scorer, then crucial passer twice, the Elephants left no chance for Niger (3-0), beaten on Friday 26 March. Before their last match in these qualifiers, Patrice Beaumelle and his men are sure to finish in one of the first two places in Group K.…

The president's former secretary general had taken over as interim prime minister shortly before the death of his predecessor, Hamed Bakayoko, who died of cancer in Europe on March 10. The new prime minister must present a new government to the president "as soon as possible". .

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Ocean Viking, the boat from NGO SOS Méditerranée, completed its eleventh rescue mission in the central Mediterranean this week. He arrived on Tuesday at the Italian port of Augusta where the 116 people he rescued outside the Mediterranean could disembark. The crew carried out two interventions, one of which disrupted the role played by the Libyan security forces.…

In the country, the degree of positivity is high. That is, out of the total number of tests performed, it turns out that a large number are positive for Covid-19. The situation is not yet critical in hospitals, but the epidemic is there and it is affecting more and more Ivorians. Out of five deaths recorded in December, the country has counted 17 in January, 35 in February and 30 died since early March. A total of 222 people have officially died of Covid-19 in Ivory Coast since the onset of the disease. This increase…

In the southern part of Côte d'Ivoire, near Tiassalé, along the Bandama River, fishermen of Malian descent complain of the growing number of accidents, sometimes fatal, that follow attacks by hippos, a protected and vulnerable species. According to them, animals are becoming more and more aggressive and some are now considering giving up their traditional occupations because of this daily danger. For…