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• Ivory Coast begins exhuming mass graves

  Ivory Coast officials on Thursday began exhuming dozens of mass graves dating back to the country's 2011 postelection violence, as a new report ... 

• Amnesty criticizes Ivory Coast for biased justice

  Ivory Coast's government is subjecting supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo to biased legal proceedings, ill-treatment and torture, while ... 

• Guinean troops take Ivory Coast village: Official

  An Ivory Coast military spokesman says that Guinean soldiers have occupied a border village in western Ivorian territory. Col. Cherif Moussa said ... 

• French tanker, crew hijacked off Ivory Coast freed

  A French tanker seized by pirates off Ivory Coast and its crew of 17 sailors have been released, its owner said Wednesday, though two workers suffered ... 

• Ivory Coast extradites 2 former Gbagbo officials

  A spokeswoman for Ivory Coast's civilian prosecutor says that a former security official and a former student leader allied with ex-President Laurent ... 

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  French tanker hijacked off Ivory Coast; 17 held

  Pirates hijacked a French-owned fuel tanker off Ivory Coast, abducting 17 sailors in the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal ... 

• Report: Ivory Coast gov't lacks impartiality

  Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those ... 

• Ble Goude charged with war crimes in Ivory Coast

  Authorities in Ivory Coast have charged former youth leader Charles Ble Goude with war crimes over his alleged role in violence linked to the ... 

• Officials: Pirates seize oil tanker in Ivory Coast

  Armed men have hijacked a tanker carrying 5,000 tons of jet fuel from an Ivory Coast port and taken it off the coast of Ghana, though its precise ... 

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  France says Africans need to take lead in Mali

  France's foreign minister said Saturday that "our African friends need to take the lead" in a military intervention to oust extremists from power in ... 

• Ble Goude returned to Ivory Coast from Ghana

  The state-run TV network says Charles Ble Goude, the former leader of an ultranationalist youth movement in Ivory Coast, has been handed over to ... 

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  Africa forces' role in Mali faces diverse snags

  West African nations that promised to send troops to fight al-Qaida in Mali are finding it's a lot trickier than they'd hoped to actually get boots ... 

• Ghana arrests Ble Goude, wanted in Ivory Coast

  Authorities in Ghana on Thursday arrested Charles Ble Goude, the former leader of an ultranationalist youth movement in Ivory Coast wanted in ... 

• Ivory Coast report: Many factors caused stampede

  Officials say that the New Year's stampede in Ivory Coast which killed 64 people was caused by a combination of several factors including unofficial ... 

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  Ivory Coast New Year's death toll rises to 64

  Ivory Coast's health minister says the death toll in the New Year's stampede has risen to 64. Health Minister Raymonde Goudou, speaking to the press, ... 

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  Stampede after fireworks kills 61 in Ivory Coast

  A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's main city, killing 61 people — many of them children and ... 

• Attacks on Ivorian military kill 1 in Abidjan

  Authorities in Ivory Coast say at least one person is dead after two simultaneous attacks on Ivorian security forces. Cherif Moussa, chief of ... 

• Transgender prostitutes face abuse in Ivory Coast

  It seemed like a case of simple blackmail. Late one night last month, two cars carrying around 10 soldiers pulled up to a group of prostitutes in ... 

• Papal envoy to Ivory Coast dies in car accident

  Ivory Coast's president says that the papal envoy to Ivory Coast was killed in a traffic accident. Ouattara expressed "deep regret," in a statement ... 

• Border raids in Ivory Coast threaten security

  Cross-border raids into western Ivory Coast have become more violent and better organized, and could have profound effects on security in the region ... 

• Thousands continue to flee homes in Ivory Coast

  Thousands of people in Ivory Coast continue to flee their homes because of ongoing land conflicts and residual tension from last year's postelection ...