Celebrations for the 62nd anniversary of independence were marked by the weighty absences of former presidents Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo, who did not respond to an invitation extended by current Head of State Alassane Dramane Ouattara

Cocoa farmers worry that they might not be able to sell enough of their produce, or at too low a price because of the 21% tariffs on Ivory Coast exports to the US recently imposed by US Cocoa is Ivory Coast's main export to the United States

33 West Africans have been rescued from a human trafficking ring in Ivory Coast that lured people into paying up to $9.000 by promising them jobs in Canada, Interpol said, instead trafficked them to Abidjan, held under physical and psychological coercion

To better plant health and promote resistance, the Regional Centre of Excellence for Virus Epidemiology in West and Central Africa signed partnership agreements in Abidjan in collaboration with the Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

Construction work has begun on a new football technical center, fully funded by the International Football Federation's Forward Fund, to strengthen the base of Ivorian soccer