news

by country & category

Côte d'Ivoire
Population: 22.0 mn.
GDP: 23.0 bn.
Debt: 9.7 bn.
Overview:

The contrast between ex-president Laurent Gbagbo's ICC trial in The Hague and President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's reluctance to hold his FRCI soldiers to account for abuses will slow reconciliation. Former IMF official Ouattara will use his international connections to bring in funding. 

Côte d'Ivoire Country Report

 


news from Côte d'Ivoire

Category: all

Found 122 articles.

Displaying 91-100 out of 122 results.

  • Vol 43 No 25
  •  20th December 2002

A new front opens

France is determined to enforce the peace but may find the latest rebels hard to handle

  • Vol 43 No 22
  •  8th November 2002

Fighting for peace

Peace talks are faltering, and West African states are reluctant to join a peacekeeping force, but no one has any better ideas

  • Vol 43 No 20
  •  11th October 2002

Whose army?

The rebels are winning more territory and the government is losing more friends

  • Vol 43 No 19
  •  27th September 2002

The nightmare scenario

An army rebellion may send the once-prosperous country down the same road as its unstable neighbours

  • Vol 43 No 14
  •  12th July 2002

A la carte

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara was at last granted a nationality certificate on 28 June (AC Vol 43 No 10) but was still unable to vote in district council elections on 7 July. The government insisted only those with a new green identity card ...

  • Vol 43 No 10
  •  17th May 2002

Interregnum

Politicians are quieter, the banks are friendlier, the security men are restless

  • Vol 43 No 3
  •  8th February 2002

The barricades again

Striking policemen upset the cash-strapped government and fuel other pay demands

  • Vol 42 No 20
  •  12th October 2001

Accident-prone

P>Almost everything that could go wrong for President Laurent Gbagbo's national reconciliation conference in Abidjan is doing so (AC Vol 42 No 18). None of the three main opposition figures - ex President Henri Konan Bédié, General Robert Gu...

  • Vol 42 No 18
  •  14th September 2001

In denial

The politics and economics aren't as bad as they look, says President Gbagbo

  • Vol 42 No 14
  •  13th July 2001

Conditionally yours

Friendlier to President Laurent Gbagbo than most donors, Paris has persuaded the European Union to offer vital budget support to Abidjan. This may tide Côte d'Ivoire over to qualify for a full International Monetary Fund recovery programme late this...

Displaying 91-100 out of 122 results.