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

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

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

Mobile enrolment centres have been launched to boost the health insurance programme and try to solve the problems of the universal health coverage programme

After gold, of which Ivory Coast is an established producer, bauxite and manganese, the country opens a new mining era with the discovery of a large deposit of Coltan (columbo-tantalite) in the centre west of the country