[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] A prominent story in Fraternite Matin (P. 1) announces the opening of a bureau of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Abidjan. According to the paper (p. 4) the announcement was made yesterday by ICC judge Silvana Arbia after a meeting with Ivorian Prime Minister Jeannot Ahoussou Kouadio, who is also the Minister of Justice in the current administration.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A robust growth forecast for the West African Economic and Monetary Union will likely be dampened by new political turmoil in the region despite a post-war revival in Ivory Coast, a top International Monetary Fund official said on Thursday. Ivory Coast, the dominant economy in the eight-country bloc, is emerging from a decade-long political crisis that led to economic ...

The striker's father fully supports the player’s decision to quit the Blues after their historic Uefa Champions League victory on Saturday against Bayern Munich

Last year, as the battle over the Ivory Coast's presidency raged in Abidjan's streets, Aboudia locked himself in his studio and painted images of mangled bodies, ghostly soldiers and child coffins.

[U.S. Embassy Abidjan] "Adama Bictogo swept away by the toxic waste scandal," says a prominent headline in Fraternite Matin (p. 1). The paper (p. 4) published a decree signed yesterday by President Ouattara "terminating the function of the Minister of African Integration, Adama Bictogo." The paper also carries on its front page a photo of the Probo Koala, the ship that dumped toxic waste in ...

Ivorian painter Aboudia, who became known for his 2010-2011 works on the post-electoral crisis in his country, painting in his workshop in Abidjan. Photo courtesy: AFP

Didier Drogba is leaving Chelsea . Five words we all knew were coming, but none of us actually wanted to acknowledge. I don’t know what makes it more difficult to stomach: the fact that the greatest striker this club has ever known is making his exit or that it is the beginning of the end of a first golden era in Chelsea footballing history. Drogba is the first in a line of many legends who will ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - From his lagoon-side allotment in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, Moussa Yanda has a ringside seat to watch the foundations of a $290-million toll bridge slowly rise up from the shore.

Paintings celebrate the fuller figure of some African women

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