Ivory Coast has plunged into a wave of pre-election intercommunal violence which has left at least seven people dead and 40 others injured in recent days in and around a port town near Abidjan, ...

Opposition figures reacted angrily on Tuesday after Ivory Coast’s top court rejected 40 candidates for upcoming presidential elections, validating the contested bid of head of state Alassane Ouattara ...

Thousands flooded the streets of Abidjan on Saturday, rallying against the exclusion of key opposition figures from Ivory Coast’s October presidential election. The demonstration, according to an AP ...

It said a postponement was supported by a ruling last week by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, declaring that local electoral commissions were unbalanced. The vast majority of the 558 ...

ABIDJAN, May 14 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's economy will grow by 3.1 percent this year and 4.1 percent in 2011, economic growth prospects have been revised to lower medians due to an uncertain political ...

Former Ivory Coast Defence Minister Moise Lida Kouassi has been released after spending nearly a year in detention on terrorism-related charges.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast(AP) — Candidates in Ivory Coast’s presidential election held their final rallies Thursday as the campaign officially concluded in the West African nation of 30 million people. The ...