Côte d'Ivoire

President Laurent Gbagbo is heading for another showdown with France. He is rebuilding his modest airforce, bombed to cinders by French jets on 6 November after loyalist forces had...

The big guns of the African Union have lost patience with President Laurent Gbagbo. South African President Thabo Mbeki was heading to Abidjan on 2 December to try to halt his appa...

Côte d'Ivoire is already split in two, but with refugees heading out of the former African success story to seek refuge in the ruins of Liberia, the question is whether the I...

By bombing the French military base at Bouaké, chasing French citizens out of Abidjan, and burning down their schools in the capital, President Laurent Gbagbo has wrecked on...

The harmony may not last, but opponents of President Laurent Gbagbo are meeting in Paris to discuss uniting behind a single candidate in next year's elections.

If President Laurent Gbagbo still worries about what people think of him, the row over the resignation of cocoa producers' leader Henri Amouzou has triggered some embarrassing reve...

The Marcoussis peace accord appears deadlocked, but French President Jacques Chirac has one more ace up his sleeve: the Gabonese leader El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba. The presence of ...

The international community seems powerless to prevent the steady worsening of the crisis (AC Vol 45 No 11). A United Nations Security Council mission arrived on 22 June and the UN...

A fresh military revolt could add to Côte d'Ivoire's woes. President Laurent Gbagbo's Bété andallied ethnic groups (Agni, Atié, Dida and Guér&eacu...

Few punches are pulled in a leaked United Nations report on the brutal suppression of a demonstration on 25 March. It concludes that the government used the opposition march as a p...