Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader
A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national ...
Ivory Coast: Gbagbo fighters to return from Togo
About 200 fighters loyal to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will be repatriated from Togo after two years of exile following their ...
Ivory Coast: We are "open" to investigating crimes
Ivory Coast's justice minister says the government is open to investigating top security officials accused by United Nations experts of raking in ...
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 ...
UN: Border violence halts Ivorian refugee return
U.N. officials in Liberia say they've temporarily halted the repatriation of tens of thousands of refugees from Ivory Coast because of continued ...
Arms transfers fuel instability in Ivory Coast
External arms transfers that played a pivotal role in Ivory Coast's decade-long political crisis continue to fuel instability and human rights abuses, ...
CAS rules Anouma out of African football election
FIFA executive committee member Jacques Anouma was barred from being a candidate to lead African football on Tuesday, losing his legal challenge to ...

Ivory Coast troubled by one-sided justice
One day in late March 2011, at the height of Ivory Coast's postelection violence, a 23-year-old cocoa farmer was shot in the back by unknown gunmen ...
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 ...

Laurent Gbagbo defense says he is a scapegoat
A lawyer for former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo told International Criminal Court judges Wednesday that prosecutors are making him a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ICC opens war crimes investigation in Mali
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court launched an investigation Wednesday into war crimes committed in Mali since an armed uprising ...

France chooses Africa intervention carefully
France has a history of intervention in Africa, where it was a colonial power for decades and still maintains several military sites and has hundreds ...

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, ...
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 ...

UN court acquits Congo rebel leader of war crimes
The International Criminal Court acquitted a Congolese militia leader Tuesday of all charges of commanding fighters who destroyed a village in eastern ...
Laurent Gbagbo ICC pretrial hearing Feb. 19
Judges at the International Criminal Court will hold a hearing in February to decide whether evidence against former Ivory Coast president Laurent ...
Judges: Int'l court has jurisdiction over Gbagbo
International Criminal Court judges have rejected an appeal by former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo claiming the court lacks jurisdiction to ...