Tag: Laurent Gbagbo

Judges must review whether to release the ageing former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo for the rest of his crimes ...

Appeal judges Wednesday struck down a decision denying former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo interim release during his trial for crimes ...

War crimes judges will rule Wednesday whether former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo can be released from prison for the rest ...

Three soldiers died after shooting erupted overnight at a base in Ivory Coast, which has been gripped by tensions within ...

Two former rebel leaders in Ivory Coast were jailed Tuesday after the ex-fighters obstructed a road into the central city ...

Cheick Tiote played last for Chinese club, Beijing Enterprise before he lost his life to the cold hands of death ...

Ivory Coast armed forces chief Sekou Toure met on Wednesday with troops who had mutinied over pay, in a bid ...

A letter to President Alassane Ouattara: You reap what you sow Mr. President, from my rat hole somewhere on the ...

Heavy gunfire has erupted in Ivory Coast's two biggest cities, as a mutiny in the army enters its fourth day. ...

Several hundred ex-rebels on Monday blocked access to Ivory Coast's second city Bouake, their former stronghold, seeking thousands of euros ...

The President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, on Friday, May 5, 2017, decorated Ghana's President, Nana Addo ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Friday, May 5 decorated with the highest national award of Burkina Faso. The ...

A court in Ivory Coast has handed a former top general 18 years behind bars in connection with the abduction ...

A court in Ivory Coast has acquitted the country’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, of crimes against humanity. The charges ...

An Ivory Coast court has found former first lady Simone Gbagbo not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity ...

When Gambian intelligence officers arrested journalist Ebrima Manneh at his newspaper, he asked an office guard to save some tea. ...

The trial opened Tuesday in Ivory Coast of 10 men, mainly soldiers, accused of kidnapping and killing four men from ...

Since President Alassane Outtara was elected in 2011, international investment has been pouring in and violence has decreased in Cote ...

All weeklong, citizens and residents of the Gambia and the whole West African sub-region had to sit on tenterhooks waiting ...

This is a historic week in the world as far as democratic transitions are concerned. On Friday, January 20, 2017, ...