Ivory Coast

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said.

Angela Merkel has been awarded a peace prize for her open borders approach to the European migrant crisis in 2015.

Reporters Without Borders (known by its French initials, RSF) published its annual Press Freedom Index on Tuesday, ranking America at a paltry 42nd place – behind countries like Burkina Faso and East Timor – because of the allegedly negative effect of President Donald Trump’s time in office.

French police arrested a 42-year-old African migrant in Nogaro this week following allegations he has raped and sexually and physically abused 28 children, including two infants, in his home since 2017.

(AFP) — Three men went on trial in Paris on Monday over the bombing of a French military camp in Ivory Coast in 2004, which killed nine soldiers and sparked furious reprisals by the French, causing a deep rift in Franco-Ivorian relations.

A Franco-Ivorian man and his Belgian wife have been convicted of killing a British businessman a quarter of a century ago.

Experts warn that coronavirus-related school closures in West Africa during the local cocoa harvest season could cause a spike in child labor in Ivory Coast and Ghana, Reuters reported on Thursday.

(AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Ivory Coast on Friday to celebrate Christmas with French troops, saying Paris would work to give “new force” to the regional fight against Islamist militants.

The lobbying firm managed by Mississippi Democrat Senate candidate Mike Espy received a second payment of $350,000 from a trade organization controlled by African despot Lauren Gbagbo.

A 16-year-old Ivorian who arrived in France as an unaccompanied minor has been arrested on suspicion of committing a series of violent rapes after his DNA was identified at the scene.

Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin took a call from a man going by the name “Michael in Virginia,” who claimed to be an FBI operative that was involved in the discovery of a Hezbollah drug trafficking and money laundering operation.

The migrant heaved a large glass bottle at police and rushed at them after stabbing a bus driver in the chest three times.

Contents: Mediterranean migrant traffic to Italy and Greece continues, despite cold weather; Europeans wonder if Turkey will reopen the refugee floodgates

France will increase the number of its troops in Ivory Coast, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday on a trip to the African nation which hosts a regional base for French forces. “This summer the French forces in Ivory

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s brutal attack on beach hotels in the Grand Bassam town of the Ivory Coast, in which at least 16 people were killed.

Contents: Yet another terrorist bombing in Ankara Turkey kills 34; AQIM takes credit for armed terror attack on Ivory Coast beach resort

The jihadist terrorists who open-fired on tourists at a beach resort in Côte d’Ivoire Sunday forced victims to shout out “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) before shooting them, according to eyewitnesses. The six gunmen, now identified as members of the

Grand-Bassam (Ivory Coast) (AFP) – Heavily armed gunmen opened fire Sunday at a hotel in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam which is popular with Westerners, witnesses told AFP.