Ivory Coast

During his last Council of Ministers, held on June 9, 2021, the Ivorian president announced the creation of 12 new autonomous districts. The district is the first level of administration for the territorial division. It is in the implementation of the policy of decentralization and local development, the head of state explains. The opposition believes that this reform aims to better control the…

The trial against Guillaume Soro and 19 of his relatives continues before Abidjan's criminal court. The former prime minister is accused of conspiring against state authority. He is being tried in his absence, but 14 other people are in the accused's box. This week, it was those who were very close to Guillaume Soro who showed up: his two brothers, his loyal head of the protocol and former minister…

The Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi and Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, today inaugurated the International Academy for the Fight against Terrorism AILCT in Jacqueville, about 60 kilometers from Abidjan. The first part of the project has been delivered, but the website is up and running and can be run at full speed. We will do training, strategy and practice…

"We are not in opposition to the government when Laurent Gbagbo returns," Koné Katinan, a spokeswoman for the ex-president, told the press on Wednesday in Abidjan. With new language elements, the person in charge of communication within the Welcome Committee gave some details about the preparations. He still does not want a discreet return, but a "visible return".…

Dobet Gnahoré punctuates his sentences periodically with this information, as a justification: "you know, I'm a twin." Hard as iron, the 38-year-old Ivorian singer believes in the astrology that governs her life. According to websites that specialize in reading the sky, Gemini symbolizes communication, movement, exchange, curiosity, intelligence. These words may suit him well. "I only live by my intuitions," she adds in her beautiful, curvy voice. If I get up one morning on the wrong foot, if I'm cold sweat, if…

The Ivory Coast is hit by an attack in the northeast, near the border with Burkina Faso, with the death of an Ivorian soldier. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General Lassina Doumbia, announced this on Tuesday, June 8, the day after the attack. as reported from Abidjan, Jean-Luc AploganThe attack is repeated and always…

An attack took place Monday night in the northeastern Ivory Coast. According to the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, one soldier lost his life. The attack took place in the town of Tougbo not far from the Burkinabe border. A sector where uncertainty reappears. With our special correspondent in Abidjan, Jean-Luc AploganThis…

Acquitted by the ICC, he still faces a sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of 329 billion CFA francs (approximately 500 million euros), in the so-called "case of BCEAO" ". The other convicts in this case have pulled benefit of an amnesty that they hope to see extended to Laurent Gbagbo. Of judgment intended for 18 January…

In Côte d'Ivoire, the violence of PDCI activists against journalists, especially the RFI correspondent at a press conference by the Minister for National Reconciliation, Kouadio Konan Bertin and the party leadership, called on the organizations to respond. The activists were angry at the ex-figure of their movement since KKB…

Guillaume Soro and 19 of his relatives are being prosecuted for their involvement to varying degrees in an alleged conspiracy against the state. 14 defendants appear, the other 6 are in exile. This week for two days, Abidjan heard the criminal case from the close guard of the close rebel leader, as well as one of his two brothers and his former chief of protocol. But at the end of 5 days of hearing, this trial does not yet seem to release any responsibility or clear roles in this alleged conspiracy. At the moment, the…