http://www.mail.com/people/60770-alassane-ouattara.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/60770-alassane-ouattara.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095136-ivory-coast-army-arrests-militia-leader.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — 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 park where his forces had been illegally occupying in the country's volatile western region, officials said. Amade Oueremi, a native of Burkina Faso, fought alongside forces backi... Sat, 18 May 2013 17:34:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095136-ivory-coast-army-arrests-militia-leader.html 2013-05-18T17:34:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2071750-ivory-coast-gbagbo-fighters-to-return-togo.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — About 200 fighters loyal to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will be repatriated from Togo after two years of exile following their country's 2010-11 postelection conflict, government spokesman Bruno Kone said. Kone said the fighters include members of Gbagbo's Defense and Security Forces army and pro-Gbagbo militiam... Wed, 08 May 2013 17:03:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2071750-ivory-coast-gbagbo-fighters-to-return-togo.html 2013-05-08T17:03:01Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051154-ivory-coast-we-open-to-investigating-crimes.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's justice minister says the government is open to investigating top security officials accused by United Nations experts of raking in millions of dollars through "warlord-style predatory economic activities." Gnenema Coulibaly said on Monday that the government would need to see proof, but that "the government canno... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:42:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051154-ivory-coast-we-open-to-investigating-crimes.html 2013-04-29T15:42:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2011386-ivory-coast-president-rule-decree.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — An Ivory Coast legislative official said Wednesday that lawmakers had given President Alassane Ouattara the authority to rule by decree on social and economic issues for 2013. Daouda Maiga, a member of the National Assembly's communications staff, said an overwhelming majority of the 178 lawmakers present voted in favor of the ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:08:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2011386-ivory-coast-president-rule-decree.html 2013-04-10T19:08:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1998004-ivory-coast-exhuming-mass-graves.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast officials on Thursday began exhuming dozens of mass graves dating back to the country's 2011 postelection violence, as a new report accused President Alassane Ouattara of failing to bring his supporters to justice for crimes they allegedly committed during the conflict. Justice Minister Gnenema Coulibaly presided ov... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:49:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1998004-ivory-coast-exhuming-mass-graves.html 2013-04-04T16:49:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1966840-arms-transfers-fuel-instability-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — External arms transfers that played a pivotal role in Ivory Coast's decade-long political crisis continue to fuel instability and human rights abuses, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday. The group documented transfers involving arms traffickers both before and after the United Nations Security Council placed the W... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:58:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1966840-arms-transfers-fuel-instability-ivory-coast.html 2013-03-20T13:58:46Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1948816-2-years-duekoue-militia-leader-free.html DUEKOUE, Ivory Coast (AP) — His fighters are accused of carrying out the worst massacre perpetrated during Ivory Coast's bloody, post-election conflict two years ago. Despite repeated vows from the government to force them out, they continue to illegally occupy a national park. And when their leader, Amade Oueremi, travels through this western town, he ha... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:37:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1948816-2-years-duekoue-militia-leader-free.html 2013-03-12T14:37:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1925328-ivory-coast-troubled-one-sided-justice.html NIAMBLY, Ivory Coast (AP) — 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 and left for dead on the outskirts of Niambly, a village of 400 mud-brick houses three kilometers outside the western town of Duekoue. In response, the village's roughly 3,000 resid... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:33:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1925328-ivory-coast-troubled-one-sided-justice.html 2013-03-01T18:33:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1915944-amnesty-criticizes-ivory-coast-biased-justice.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's government is subjecting supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo to biased legal proceedings, ill-treatment and torture, while failing to ensure their security in the country's volatile western region, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International. The 86-page report, titled "The Victor's L... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:26:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1915944-amnesty-criticizes-ivory-coast-biased-justice.html 2013-02-26T11:26:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1903190-laurent-gbagbo-defense-scapegoat.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A lawyer for former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo told International Criminal Court judges Wednesday that prosecutors are making him a "scapegoat" for deadly violence that erupted after his country's disputed 2010 elections. Gbagbo lawyer Emmanuel Altit claimed at a crucial pretrial hearing that prosecutors are focused... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:43:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1903190-laurent-gbagbo-defense-scapegoat.html 2013-02-20T15:43:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1869662-ivory-coast-extradites-2-gbagbo-officials.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A spokeswoman for Ivory Coast's civilian prosecutor says that a former security official and a former student leader allied with ex-President Laurent Gbagbo were arrested in Ghana Monday and extradited to Abidjan early Tuesday morning. Jean-Noel Abehi was a top gendarmerie official based at Agban military camp in Abidjan, and J... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1869662-ivory-coast-extradites-2-gbagbo-officials.html 2013-02-05T13:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1856040-report-ivory-coast-govt-lacks-impartiality.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those who killed hundreds of men in the country's western town of Duekoue, according to a new United Nations expert report that also criticized the indefinite and inhumane detention of those suspects that... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1856040-report-ivory-coast-govt-lacks-impartiality.html 2013-01-30T11:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1835716-ble-goude-charged-with-war-crimes-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ivory Coast have charged former youth leader Charles Ble Goude with war crimes over his alleged role in violence linked to the country's disputed presidential election two years ago, state television reported Monday. Ble Goude, who had been hiding for the last 20 months before he was arrested in Ghana last week a... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1835716-ble-goude-charged-with-war-crimes-ivory-coast.html 2013-01-21T21:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1831576-france-africans-to-take-lead-mali.html BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — 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 northern Mali, though he acknowledged it could be weeks before neighbors are able to do so. Laurent Fabius spoke at a closely-watched summit in Ivory Coast focusing on ways that African fo... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1831576-france-africans-to-take-lead-mali.html 2013-01-19T15:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1827524-ghana-arrests-ble-goude-wanted-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ghana on Thursday arrested Charles Ble Goude, the former leader of an ultranationalist youth movement in Ivory Coast wanted in connection with violence linked to its disputed presidential election two years ago, officials said. Ble Goude, who has been hiding for the last 20 months, has been implicated by Human Ri... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1827524-ghana-arrests-ble-goude-wanted-ivory-coast.html 2013-01-17T18:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1816306-france-chooses-africa-intervention-carefully.html PARIS (AP) — 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 of troops across the continent, including Senegal, Ivory Coast, Chad and Gabon. MALI — January 2013: French helicopter gunships and fighter jets struck at Islamist fighters in Mali at the reques... Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1816306-france-chooses-africa-intervention-carefully.html 2013-01-12T18:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1794258-stampede-fireworks-kills-61-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — 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 teenagers — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said. Thousands had gathered at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan's Plateau district to see the fireworks. It was ... Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1794258-stampede-fireworks-kills-61-ivory-coast.html 2013-01-01T20:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1782156-attacks-ivorian-military-kill-1-abidjan.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ivory Coast say at least one person is dead after two simultaneous attacks on Ivorian security forces. Cherif Moussa, chief of communications for the army, said Friday that the attacks took place overnight in the commercial capital of Abidjan. The United Nations said it "firmly condemns" the latest violence again... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1782156-attacks-ivorian-military-kill-1-abidjan.html 2012-12-21T16:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1755816-transgender-prostitutes-face-abuse-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — 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 Abidjan's Vallon neighborhood and began demanding bribes. To save themselves, some of the women in the group approached the soldiers and told them what they knew would divert their at... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1755816-transgender-prostitutes-face-abuse-ivory-coast.html 2012-12-10T15:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1753998-papal-envoy-to-ivory-coast-dies-car-accident.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — 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 read out on state television Saturday evening over the death of Indian archbishop Ambrose Madtha. Madtha, who assumed his post in 2008, had officiated a service in the northwestern ... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1753998-papal-envoy-to-ivory-coast-dies-car-accident.html 2012-12-09T11:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1750488-border-raids-ivory-coast-threaten-security.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Cross-border raids into western Ivory Coast have become more violent and better organized, and could have profound effects on security in the region near Liberia if they continue, a United Nations expert panel warned in a report. The U.N. experts said the attacks are believed to have been orchestrated by supporters of former Iv... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1750488-border-raids-ivory-coast-threaten-security.html 2012-12-07T10:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1745760-african-leader-aims-mali-mission-early-2013.html PARIS (AP) — 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 president said Wednesday, even as the president of Chad decried "total confusion" about a possible international intervention. The African leaders were in Paris separately Wednesday amid increa... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1745760-african-leader-aims-mali-mission-early-2013.html 2012-12-05T18:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1728674-thousands-continue-to-flee-homes-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Thousands of people in Ivory Coast continue to flee their homes because of ongoing land conflicts and residual tension from last year's postelection violence, according to a report released Wednesday. The report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center said at least 24,000 people were displaced so far this year. An addi... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1728674-thousands-continue-to-flee-homes-ivory-coast.html 2012-11-28T17:12:00Z