The Miss Ivory Coast pageant has banned contestants from wearing wigs and weaves in its preliminary stages, instead embracing ...

Cocoa exports make up betwenn 15 and 20% of Ivory Coast's GDP. The effects of the new tariffs, imposed by US president Donald ...

Ivory Coast is the only African country enforcing ... "I would see other girls with long, artificial hair, and they looked so beautiful," 21-year-old Emmanuella Dali, a real estate agent, told ...

This year, the Miss Ivory Coast national beauty pageant announced a new rule: Contestants are no longer allowed to wear wigs during the competition. Instead, the winner will need to have a natural ...

Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years ...