- Vol 54 No 12
- 7th June 2013
The government claims it treats both sides’ atrocities in the recent fighting even-handedly – it may prefer to let the reconciliation process slide
- Vol 54 No 10
- 10th May 2013
The Forces Nouvelles plundered the area they controlled when they were confined to the north of the country, says the latest report by the United Nations Panel of Experts (PoE) on Côte d’Ivoire. Now, they say, the plunder has extended nation-wide and ‘...
- Vol 54 No 8
- 12th April 2013
Many independent candidates are standing in the local elections but that doesn’t lessen the main political divide
- Vol 54 No 8
- 12th April 2013
In Abidjan’s large suburb of Yopougon, seven of nine candidates are standing as independents, with one candidate from the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire-Rassemblement démocratique africain and the other from the Rassemblement des républicains. Anothe...
- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
The arrest in Tema port of Ivorian militia leader Charles Blé Goudé on 17 January will do much to improve relations between Ghana’s President John Mahama and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara. Intelligence sources said Blé Goudé, who is wante...
- Vol 53 No 25
- 14th December 2012
Ouattara’s new cabinet of bankers and economists underlines his determination to raise living standards but what about human rights?
- Vol 53 No 21
- 19th October 2012
Ex-President Gbagbo’s supporters in Accra are planning guerrilla attacks
over the border and may even have reached out to Mali’s jihadist rebels
- Vol 53 No 21
- 19th October 2012
Former President Laurent Gbagbo’s loyalists fled to Ghana in droves when he was finally deposed in April 2011. They did so hoping for political support from Jerry Rawlings, the former President, according to sources in Accra and in Abdijan. Rawlings has m...
- Vol 53 No 16
- 3rd August 2012
Crimes committed before the civil war of 2011 should be treated differently from those committed by both sides during the conflict, Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara argues.
- Vol 53 No 13
- 22nd June 2012
Coup plots in Côte d’Ivoire are linked to the murder of United Nations peacekeepers in the east of the country, officials in Abidjan say.