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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 returns stampede bodies to families
An Ivory Coast official says the government has begun handing over the bodies of those killed in a New Year's stampede to their families.
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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...
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 ...
African leader aims for Mali mission in early 2013
U.N.-mandated African forces could intervene early next year to dislodge al-Qaida-affiliates from their new stronghold in northern Mali, Ivory Coast's ...
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 ...

Ivory Coast exiles in Ghana campaign for Gbagbo
Moussa Toure Zeguen, an aging militia leader and longtime backer of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, spends most of his time in exile ...

Former Ivory Coast leader's wife wanted by ICC
The International Criminal Court unsealed an indictment Thursday against former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo's wife on charges including ...
Ivory Coast: New prime minister named
President Alassane Ouattara has tapped Foreign Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan to serve as prime minister in a new government one week after the ...