Ivory Coast — the world's largest cocoa producer — aims to diversify its economy by placing greater emphasis on mining. While gold has long been the backbone of its resource sector — with ...

Laurent Gbagbo addresses delegates of his newly formed political party, the African People's Party-Ivory Coast, PPA-CI, in ...

He's small, cute and viral: the baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, housed in a Thai zoo, has become the star of millions of posts, memes and videos around the world. But in the wild, the pygmy hippopotamus ...

Farmers in Ivory Coast, the source of 45% of the world’s cocoa beans, battle climate change and market inequality. We examine why Ivory Coast’s defeat of Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations ...

ABIDJAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling in the west of the country, the army said in ...

Ivory Coast’s AFCON journey began on shaky ground. A humiliating 0-4 defeat against Equatorial Guinea in the group stage left the hosts reeling and on the brink of elimination. That loss proved ...

Instead, the weapons now come from African countries with weak control of their own weapons stockpiles, notably the Central African Republic and Ivory Coast. Sudan has also been an important ...