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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

Population: 18.5 million
GNI: $16000 million
Debt: $9900 million
Overview: The much delayed presidential election is scheduled for June but progress on disarmament and identification is needed if the poll is to be credible and consolidate President Laurent Gbagbo's deal with rebel leader Guillaume Soro.

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  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Democratic deficit

Leaders send out mixed signals on whether elections will take place this year

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Skimming a bad system

Côte d'Ivoire's Public Prosecutor, Raymond Tchimou, is leading a crackdown on corruption in the cocoa industry, which accounts for 40% of world supply. On 13 June, Tchimou announced the findings of an enquiry ordered by President Laurent Gbagbo t...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Ivorian auction

The wealth of Côte d'Ivoire's defunct founding father, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, was on display at an auction in the historic French town of Fontainebleau on 29 June. The sale of exquisite, prized pieces of furniture, art works and tap...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

It's not over yet

Postponed elections and continuing violence cast a long shadow over hopes for peace

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

A do-it-yourself peace

Our accord is a model for all, President Gbagbo tells the UN – but the hardest test is yet to come as election preparations begin

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

The 'Soro ranks'

When the war broke out in 2002, those soldiers who defected from the national army to the rebels were rewarded by promotion; they now insist they should keep their higher ranks in the planned, post-conflict, unified army. Loyalists do not accept this. ...

  • Vol 48 No 12
  • 08/06/2007

BLOOD CHOCOLATE

Chocolate sales could dive after a report that Ivorian rebels may earn more from taxes on cocoa beans than from 'blood diamonds'.

  • Vol 48 No 11
  • 25/05/2007

THE BANK TEST

One of the best tests of the peace accords is whether they prompt the African Development Bank to return to Abidjan. It moved to Tunisia in June 2003, after the Ivorian civil war erupted in 2002. The ADB has since dodged a decision by annually extendin...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

Oiling the wheels of peace

Rapidly rising oil earnings could help to restore Côte d'Ivoire's status as the economic giant of Francophone West Africa.

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

All their own work

Government and rebels proposed their own deal, so goodbye to the international peacekeepers

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