Vol 49 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE It's not over yet 25th April 2008 Postponed elections and continuing violence cast a long shadow over hopes for peace The elections that were due in January are now scheduled for 30 November, but the old bugbears that caused the delay have still not been laid to rest,...
Vol 48 No 20 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE A do-it-yourself peace 5th October 2007 Our accord is a model for all, President Gbagbo tells the UN – but the hardest test is yet to come as election preparations begin Both government and rebel politicians extol the virtues of the peace accord which they negotiated in March. Côte d'Ivoire is moving determinedly towards free elections next year, they...
Vol 48 No 20 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE The 'Soro ranks' 5th October 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Blood chocolate 8th June 2007 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 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE The Bank test 25th May 2007 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,...
Vol 48 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Oiling the wheels of peace 27th April 2007 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 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE All their own work 16th March 2007 Government and rebels proposed their own deal, so goodbye to the international peacekeepers President Laurent Gbagbo likes the 4 March peace accord signed with rebel leader Guillaume Soro, under the auspices of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré. Under the deal, Gbagbo...
Vol 48 No 4 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Toxic traffic 16th February 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 4 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Buying time 16th February 2007 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...
Vol 48 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Strangers in the night 19th January 2007 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...