By Parke Brewer Hamburg 10 June 2006 Four of the five African nations that qualified for the World Cup in Germany are making their first-ever appearance at football's premiere event. One of them is Ivory Coast and VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer caug...
By Franz Wild Diouzon, Ivory Coast 20 May 2006 Bangladeshi soldiers at the entrance to the zone of confidence In Ivory Coast, a recent attack in a village along the volatile dividing line between rebe...
By Joe Bavier in Abidjan Franz Wild in Meagui 18 May 2006 Officials in a half dozen towns in war-divided Ivory Coast have begun registering residents who, until now, have had no documents or legal sta...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 16 March 2006 UN peackeepers patrol in western Ivory Coast Ivory Coast is one the first countries to benefit from a new United Nations emergency fund. The $1 million allocated to...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 11 March 2006 Ivory Coast's former president Henri Konan Bedie The previously deposed president of divided Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bedie, has launched a new bid to reclaim t...
By Joe Bavier Yamoussoukro 28 February 2006 Ivory Coast PM Charles Konan Banny, left, seen during a meeting with Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, right, in Abidjan (File photo - Dec. 5, 2005) Aft...
By Nico Colombant and Zoumana Wonogo Abidjan and Ouagadougou 28 February 2006 Burkina Faso map While the Ivory Coast peace process stutters along, many northern rebel leaders have established a double...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 16 February 2006 The U.S. Ambassador in divided Ivory Coast says time is running out for elections to be held before October 2006, as mandated by the U.N. Security Council. A...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 10 February 2006 Host nation Egypt has defeated Ivory Coast in the final of the 2006 African Cup of Nations. In the divided West African country, the loss has also dashed hop...
By Joe Bavier Yamoussoukro 01 March 2006 An unprecedented summit of the principle parties in Ivory Coast's more than three-year-old civil war has ended negotiations after just one day. But, all sides...