Ivory Coast

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

The Felix Houphouët-Boigny-Unesco Peace Prize is scheduled has been awarded on 24 February in Abidjan in a ceremony that honoured personalities and organisations committed to promoting peace in the world

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

The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling in the west of the country; 50.000-75.000 tons are estimated to have been trafficked over the western border in the current harvest

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

The Hôpital Mère-Enfant in Bingerville, near Abidjan, has confirmed the success of the country's very first operation to separate Siamese twins

French troops will leave the country after a decades-long military presence,The country has announced, thus becoming the last African nation to cut military ties with its former colonial power

Ivory Coast's culinary speciality attiéké, a manioc-based dish of couscous-like consistency, has become part of UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage

The know-how linked to the preparation of attiéké, an ancestral and emblematic dish of Côte d'Ivoire, has been included in the list of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of Côte d'Ivoire

Former Ivorian Prime Minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan was nominated as the candidate of the Ivorian Popular Front in the 2025 presidential election with 99,34% of the votes cast by some 4.500 voters

Boundary Commission and its Ghana's counterpart validated maritime and land boundaries framework agreements following a series of stakeholder meetings held between the two countries over the past eight years