Vol 54 No 16 | CÔTE D'IVOIREGHANA Row over exiles 29th July 2013 Claims that Ivorian secret agents are targeting pro-Laurent Gbagbo exiles in Ghana raise tensions again between Accra and Abidjan President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s government is sending undercover agents to Ghana to abduct or assassinate supporters of former President Laurent Ggabo there, according to senior security sources in...
Vol 54 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Justice may have to wait 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 Militia leader Amadé Ouérémi has handed himself in for trial for the worst massacre of the 2010-11 post-election crisis, the slaughter of 3,000 people at Duékoué in March...
Vol 54 No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Com-Zone, come all 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...
Vol 54 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Boycotts and masks 12th April 2013 Many independent candidates are standing in the local elections but that doesn’t lessen the main political divide At least half of the candidates which the Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) has accepted for the regional and municipal elections on 21 April are running as independents. On...
Vol 54 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Independents in name 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...
Vol 54 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIREGHANA Blé Goudé arrested 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...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRECHINA Billions for ADO 5th August 2013 Beijing state banks to lend billions to Ouattara In July, Development and Planning Minister Albert Mabri Toikeusse revealed that negotiations are under way between the Abidjan government and China’s state-run policy banks that will provide the...