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As the World Cup quest grips, who are the African players to watch?
Could an African team actually win the first African World cup? Why not? The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, the Nigerian Eagles, The...
Ivory Coast: Chelsea’s Didier Drogba out of 2010 World Cup
The Ivory Coast will travel to South Africa without their captain. Didier Drogba, Chelsea striker, was injured in a friendly match between the Elephants...
Dutch Oil Company in the dock for Ivory Coast disaster
Dutch oil firm, Trafigura alleged of dumping toxic waste in The Ivory Coast is facing prosecution in The Netherlands. Prosecutors said Trafigura had broken...
Drogba to kill off Wigan at the Bridge to help Chelsea cling title
Didier Drogba’s awesome form will be counted on today as Chelsea play their final Premier League game against Wigan Athletic at the Stanford Bridge...
Ivory Coast: Call for justice reiterated on sixth anniversary of journalist’s disappearance
News conferences were held simultaneously in Paris and Abidjan on 15 April 2010 to mark the sixth anniversary of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer's disappearance...
Africa registers disasterous World Cup friendlies
Carlos Alberto Parreira should have had a sleepless night Wednesday after his charges dug deep to salvage an undeserved one-all draw with minnows Namibia...
Football: 2010 World Cup trials begin
The countdown is on! It is 99 days to the D-day, and the six African teams qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2010 are...
Ivory Coast: Anti-president sentiments grow
Protest against the president of Ivory Coast has resulted in the deaths of civilians and the injury of many more. Security forces fired live...
Côte d’Ivoire: UNOCI’s Ghanaian battalion donates food to orphanage in Bondoukou
The Ghanaian battalion of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) based in Bondoukou, on Tuesday, donated food to Hellas orphanage in the...
Eto’o and Adebayor dwarf Drogba in football’s top 50 earners
Cameroon's Eto'o, Togo's Adebayor, Mali's Kanouté and Ivory Coast's Drogba and Touré: Five African players have made it to the list of football's top...
Ivory Coast heads for a major upheaval?
A few days after Ivory Coast President, Laurent Gbagbo, dissolved the country's government and Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), a coalition of opposition parties is...
Ivory Coast at the threshold of a civil war?
Tuesday, demonstrators burned down the prefecture of Vavoua, a town in central Côte d'Ivoire, to protest against attempts by the Ivorian Popular Front (Front...
CAN 2010: Ghana – Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast holds the first ticket to the quarters
The Elephants haven’t faltered: with their 3-1 victory over Ghana, Ivory Coast are through to the quarter finals of the 2010 African Cup of...
CAN 2010: Ivory Coast – Burkina Faso game, a strong warning to Ghana
The Ivory Coast was held to a goalless draw by Burkina Faso (0-0), Monday night in Cabinda. After Togo’s demise, it is now a...
Cote d’Ivoire: UN Mission aids agricultural sector as mission comes to an end
Cote d'Ivoire has recieved a boost of $10 million dollars from a United Nations agency. The fund is to assist the West African country's...
Côte d’Ivoire: Peace villages for little model citizens
Living in harmony and respecting the rules of democracy. Two thousand Ivorian children have put this into practice under the leadership of Mireille Critie...
Ivory Coast elections to take place between end of February and beginning March
The Ivory Coast elections, which has been postponed on uncountable occasions since 2005, will finally “take place between end of February and beginning March”,...
West Africa: A future of shared roles in pharmaceutical development
It is funny. The more I listen to pharmaceutical industry players on increasing access to quality medicines, the more relevant Nkrumah’s African unity becomes....
West Africa: A common visa for UEMOA states
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) has moved a step closer to establishing a common visa that will allow free movement within...
Ivorian coach Halilhodzic weary of Ghana’s threat
Cote d'Ivoire's national team coach, Vahid Halilhodzic has rated the Black Stars of Ghana as the major threat to their ambition at the Orange...
Structuralism ‘au village’: An Obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the twentieth century’s most revered intellectuals, died October 29 at the age of 100. He is best known...
Drogba on-song: As Chelsea demolish United at the Bridge
Manchester United suffered yet another devastating defeat from the hands of their fierce rival Chelsea after a thrilling match at the Stanford Bridge Stadium...
Controversy in the UK over Ivory Coast toxic disaster
In 2006, more than 30,000 Ivorians fell victim to high levels of poisonous gasses from a lethal toxic waste which was dumped by an...
Trafigura in Africa: A crime against humanity
This week the controversial oil trading company Trafigura found itself in the limelight once again, following a revelation by the British press showing evidence...
Ivory Coast: Massive population poisoning, Dutch oil-trading company guilty?
Trafigura, would have purposefully dumped deadly chemicals in Ivory Coast that poisoned and killed thousands of people in 2006. An Ivorian contractor Solomon Ugburogbu,...
Burkina Faso: Investors snatch up shares despite meltdown
The surprise success of the first-ever sale of corporate stocks to the public in Burkina Faso has forced a rethink about African attitudes to...
Côte d’Ivoire: landslide leaves 19 dead
Nineteen people died Friday in landslides caused by heavy rainfall in several districts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Abidjan.net reports. The final official assessment indicates...
Côte d’Ivoire: November 29 set for Ivorian elections
“The electoral college of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivorians, editor’s note) is summoned to go to the polls on 29 November 2009 in...
France gets Ivory Coast relief package through IMF
With an immense support from France, the Ivory Coast has been set Debt Free by the International Monetary Fund. The sum of $3...
Rapists in northern Ivory Coast on the loose
Women in villages around Korhogo, 630 km north of Abidjan the capital of Côte d’Ivoire, dare not walk to their fields alone for fear...