Africa Ivory Coast A bill to protect the elephants, the country's symbol, has been adopted; compared to about 3.000 in the 1970s and 1980s, there are now only about 500, thus wildlife sanctuaries will be created in national parks and reserves
Africa Ivory Coast Abidjan has given the go-ahead for the establishment of a US base in Odienné, north-west Ivory Coast, from where Sahelian jihadist groups can threaten the Gulf of Guinea countries
Africa Ivory Coast The first vaccines against malaria, a disease that kills four people a day in the country, mainly young children, were sent to the country; a total of 656.600 doses were received
Africa Ivory Coast Mobile enrolment centres have been launched to boost the health insurance programme and try to solve the problems of the universal health coverage programme
Africa Ivory Coast A musical inspired by the life of Felix Houphouet Boigny, father of independence and first president of Côte d'Ivoire, will be staged for the first time on 7 and 8 June at the Treichville Palace of Culture in Abidjan