Cote d'Ivoire News

The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision.

People from Ivory Coast who said they had been made ill by dumped waste have begun to receive compensation cheques, after a four-year legal battle.

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People in OdiennA©, northern CA te d'Ivoire, protesting President Laurent Gbagbo's decision to dissolve government and the electoral commission.

Drawing a crowd in an outdoor market in Marcory, a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2002.

Togo's elections scheduled for Thursday, 4 March, 2010, are the first in more than a dozen votes expected to take place in sub-Saharan Africa this year.

Ivory Coast's opposition coalition says it will participate in a new government, raising hopes for an early end to nearly two weeks of deadly protests.

Ivory Coast's opposition held out against joining a new government created after the president dissolved the last one, saying Friday they will only take part if the ruling party agrees to appoint the same ministers that were fired.

Mediator Blaise Compaore looked to have sealed a deal to end Cote d'Ivoire's political crisis on Monday after the key players agreed to salvage a political accord and keep long-awaited elections in sight.

He got his first one-year extension in 2005. And another in 2006. And every year since, President Laurent Gbagbo has gone through the motions of organizing presidential elections, only to cancel them at the last minute.

The top United Nations envoy in Cte d'Ivoire today met with the African mediator seeking to end the political crisis threatening the much-delayed elections in the divided West African country.

Cote d'Ivoire's Prime Minister Guillaume Soro unveiled his 28-member government on Tuesday night in Abidjan, but the new lineup remains partial with efforts still going on to lure in the reluctant opposition.

Cote d'Ivoire authorities on Tuesday announced the establishment of a new government to relieve the country from the dangerous crisis, which has threatened all the hard-won gains in recent years in the peace process.

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Voicing grave concern at the political situation in Cte d'Ivoire after last week's dissolution of the Government and the independent electoral authority, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on all sides to keep up momentum for the much-delayed elections in the divided West African country.

An uneasy calm has been restored in cities across Cte d'Ivoire following fresh protests over the past few days, according to aid workers.

At least five people were killed and 12 others seriously injured on Friday in Cote d'Ivoire's central west town of Gbagbo, 230 km from the economic capital Abidjan, a sad day marking an escalation in the crisis linked to the presidential elections.

A week after President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the government and the electoral commission, thousands marched in the city of Bouake, damaging cars and shops.

Security forces in Cote d'Ivoire opened fire on hundreds of protesters in south-western Gagnoa town Friday, killing an undisclosed number of people and wounding others, hospital sources said.

Security forces shot dead six people in Cote d'Ivoire during protests on Friday following the dissolution of the government and the electoral commission.