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The Ivorian government is now forcing multinational companies to give up 20% of their export contracts to Ivorian operators. A measure aimed at avoiding the suffocation of Côte d'Ivoire traders who have long condemned the unfair competition of multinational companies currently in a virtual monopoly position on Côte d'Ivoire in the purchase and export of cocoa.…

While voluntary termination of pregnancy is still prohibited in Côte d'Ivoire, except in cases of rape or incest, covert abortion is a common practice among women. The school environment is particularly affected, NGO Médecins du Monde estimates that 76% of Ivorian women who end their pregnancies still go to school. From our correspondent in Abidjan,At the end of…

A step in direction of reconciliation? Burkinabe's Minister for Nationwide Reconciliation, Zéphirin Diabré, is in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He'll meet former President Blaise Compaoré, in exile since he overthrew in 2014. This assembly is a premiere between a minister of Roch Marc Kaboré's authorities and his predecessor Blaise…

At the beginning of the intermediate marketing campaign, producers will sell their beans at 750 CFA francs per kilo instead of 1000 CFA francs in October last year. The announcement was made by the Coffee and Cocoa Council, which manages the sector. The enthusiasm of the Ivorian cocoa producers will have lasted less than six…

Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé were definitely acquitted. The ICC Court of Appeal announced its decision on Wednesday afternoon, March 31, in The Hague. A news eagerly awaited by the militants and sympathizers of the FPI, the party for Gbagbo, which caused scenes of cheering in the Ivory Coast. In the Selmer district of Yopougon, where our correspondent went Sidy Yansane, maquis Tantie Margot has been transformed into a mini-cinema for live broadcasting of the ICC hearing. When the judge dismissed the prosecutor's…

On November 6, 2004, two Ivorian planes bombed a French camp for the Licorne force in Bouaké, Ivory Coast: nine French soldiers and one American civilian were killed, 38 people wounded. In retaliation, the French army destroyed the Ivorian air force. Tensions are rising between Paris and Abidjan. More than 16 years later, the trial of the persecuted pilots for murder, attempted murder and destruction of property will begin on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris, without the accused. The box will be empty. Of the…

Disappeared eight months after his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the Ivorian prime minister, was buried on Friday 19 March in Séguéla. It is in his hometown in the northwest Ivory Coast that Hamed Bakayoko's remains after Friday prayers in the mosque will be buried."Goodbye Hambak!" Morning fraternity, government newspaper on the front page, which in an archive photo, Hamed Bakayoko, hands joined, walks on the red carpet…

"If the presidential party retains its absolute majority in the National Assembly, pro-Gbagbo has shown that they remain one of the most important political forces in the country," he noted. The young Africa. (…) Of the 254 alternate seats at stake, Alassane Ouattara won the RHDP 137 and therefore obtained an absolute majority (results which are still preliminary as they have not yet been validated by the Constitutional…

With lower than 22,000 circumstances declared for the reason that pandemic started and 133 deaths recorded, Ivory Coast appears comparatively spared from the pandemic in comparison with different international locations in Africa as effectively. However Côte d'Ivoire is becoming a member of the Covax initiative and can launch a large vaccination marketing campaign subsequent yr, which the federal…

Within the Ivory Coast, the NGO Deal with Africa works to convey messages about sexual well being via soccer workouts. HIV, STIs, gender-based violence, genital mutilation or entry to contraception, many critical and critical subjects are mentioned with main faculty college students in a great temper and with a bullet within the foot. in a main faculty in Grand-Bassam.…