ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cocoa arrivals at ports in top grower Ivory Coast as of Feb 12 were down nearly four percent at around 917,000 tonnes versus 955,030 tonnes for the same period a year earlier, exporters estimates showed on Monday. Exporters said that around 20,000 tonnes of beans were delivered to the West African state's two ports between Feb 6 and Feb 12, down from 50,349 tonnes in the same ...

[UN News] A United Nations voluntary disarmament operation began today in a suburb north of the Ivorian city of Abidjan, aiming to collect illegal weapons still in circulation among the civilian population.

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Ivory Coast, who yet again failed to fulfil their favourite's tag at the Africa Cup of Nations, head back to Abidjan laden down with disappointment, coach Francois Zahoui said.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's reform of its cocoa sector, vital for the country to obtain further debt relief, began in confusion on Tuesday as the regulator hailed the first forward-sales auction a success while exporters said they had boycotted the event. Ivory Coast held as scheduled a 1030 GMT auction of the 2012-13 crop which is the first step in a move by the top grower away from a ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has invited bids for an auction on Tuesday to launch the forward-selling of future cocoa crops but several exporters told Reuters they would not take part due to a disagreement over details of the top grower's sector overhaul. The auctions are key to a reform of the sector ending a decade of liberalisation and replacing it with a regulated system designed to ...

It is high time Côte d'Ivoire's international partners to show that in addition to standing with the Ouattara government, they stand with all the Ivorian crisis' victims.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will not be able to achieve completion of an IMF-backed debt relief accord as it hopes in the first quarter of this year, but a deal is possible in the second quarter, the Fund's local official said on Thursday. "No, it is not possible," IMF Resident Representative Wayne Camard told Reuters in an interview when asked whether the West African country's cocoa sector ...

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IRIN (Nairobi)-A severe shortage of clean drinking water in parts of Côte d'Ivoire is reaching critical levels and threatening public health, say residents and officials.