Africa Ivory Coast Former president Laurent Gbagbo, founder of the Front Populaire Ivoirien, now plagued by strong divisions, has proposed the creation of a new political party and the announcement has generated much attention
Africa Ivory Coast The Sudanese-style mosques in the north of the country have been added to the Unesco World Heritage list, 8 small mosques characterised by protruding beams, vertical buttresses crowned with ceramics or ostrich eggs, and tapered minarets
Africa Ivory Coast With funding from the IFC and the WB programme, medical clinics will be helped to acquire equipment, supporting the country's growth into a regional medical center
Africa Ivory Coast Ivoirian chemical engineer Noël N'guessan has won the 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for an invention that enables small-scale farmers in West Africa to efficiently manage and generate income from organic waste
Africa Ivory Coast To tackle the alarming deforestation in the country, the government has decided that one day in 2021 will be dedicated to planting 50 million trees
Africa Ivory Coast The International Finance Corporation and the African Development Bank's Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa will work together to increase the skills, incomes and access to finance of thousands of smallholder women farmers
Africa Ivory Coast The country inaugurated a counter-terrorism academy with France, designed to enhance the Sahel region's capacity to control the jihadist threat
Africa Ivory Coast Football player Didier Drogba received an honorary degree from the University of Sciences and Technology of Africa network for charitable work in the country
Africa Ivory Coast Great effort is put into saving architectural treasures of Grand-Bassam, reknown for its French colonial style, damaged by recent flooding
Africa Ivory Coast 2021 anti-smoking campaign to reinforce awareness of tobacco-related risks follows 2012 public smoking ban
Africa Ivory Coast The country, one of the greatest cocoa giants in the world, has reported great progress in goals to end deforestation preparing for stricter EU rules on production standars of the chocolate ingredient
Africa Ivory Coast All driving test examiners have been suspended across the country to clean up the sector from corruption, fraud and rise in road accidents
Africa Ivory Coast Designer Jean Servais Somian gives second life to everyday objects transforming them into new creations: canoes become benches and coconut trees a piece of furniture