New Delhi: Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, who was injured in a car crash in Liberia, will be air lifted to India by a special aircraft Wednesday from Abidjan, the capital of Cote d'Ivoire. A senior official...
Abidjan - A judicial inquiry in Ivory Coast into corruption allegations against Interior Minister Desire Tagro cleared him on Monday of charges including stealing money meant for victims of a toxic waste dumping. President Laurent Gbagbo ordered the investigation last...
Abidjan - Ivory Coast's electoral commission announced on Monday that it had enlarged its provisional voter list to 5.77-million from 5.3-million to include voters who were too young at the last polls. The new provisional list will be published on Thursday. The world's...
By Tim Cocks Abidjan - The streets of Ivory Coast's main city were filled with trucks carrying steel, cement, fuel, and other goods on Thursday morning, apparently ignoring a transport strike meant to include commercial...
Abidjan - A priest in Ivory Coast used an Easter Sunday sermon to accuse politicians of behaving like "vampires" in a country mired in a political stalemate dragging into its eighth year. Raphael Souroukou launched his stinging attack in front of 1 500...
The World Bank yesterday approved the sum of US$258 million for the first phase of the Abidjan-Lagos Trade and Transport Facilitation Pro-gramme. The approval was announced in a release by the bank in Washington D.C., United States of America. It said the...
