Government and rebels proposed their own deal, so goodbye to
the international peacekeepers
As oil trader Trafigura pledges to pay the Ivorian government
CFA 100 billion (US$198 million) in compensation for a deadly
toxic spill last August, Africa Confidential has uncovered
a pattern of oil industry waste dumping in Côte d'Ivoire
by foreign ...
Irregular war-time army recruits mutinied in five towns in
early February in a protest over pay. President Laurent Gbagbo
has bought some time, but may not have enough cash to resolve
the dispute concerning thousands of 2002/2003 recruits.
Two gendarmes and a customs agent dead, a supposed assaillant killed by an angry mob and fears of a wave of new attacks: this
is the aftermath of a night raid on 11-12 January by a so-far-unidentified
group on Côte d'Ivoire's southeastern border t...
The French-sponsored resolution at the United Nations
Security Council (UNSC) on 1 Novmber, increasing the powers of
Premier Charles Konan Banny at the expense of President
Laurent Gbagbo, is likely to prompt more political infighting.
Both sides in the divided country exploit the underground economy to pay for fresh weapons
Diamonds slip through the export ban imposed on Côte
d'Ivoire last year. Many are now routed through Ghana.
Production is estimated at between 114,000 and 214,000 carats,
compared with 300,000 carats pre-war.
International oil traders Trafigura's Chief Executive, Claude
Dauphin, and his West Africa Manager Jean-Pierre Valentini
remain in Abidjan's high-security Maison d'Arrêt et de
Correction gaol. Trafigura denies wrong-doing over the dumping
of 500...
How lethal waste came to Abidjan and who brought it there
2 July: Probo Koala docked at Amsterdam after unloading at Algesiras, Spain. It asked Amsterdam Port Services (APS) to empty its slops tank. More than 500 cubic metres (m3 ) were unloaded and taken to port. Saying the pollution was serious and the waste w...
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