Former Ivorian first lady Simone Gbagbo formally launched her political party three years before the presidential elections, to date the sole candidate and president of the MGC, Movement of Capable Generations

The third edition of the conference on investment in tourism and hotels in Africa will be held on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January, in Abidjan, with the theme "Africa Deserves Beauty"

It kicked off in Abidjan Football for Schools, an ambitious programme run by FIFA that combines sport and education; it is the first country in West Africa and the fifth on the continent to join the programme that seeks to make football more accessible

The first edition of the 'Festival of the Regions' to be held in Côte d'Ivoire next April with the aim of valorising and communicating the country's cultural diversity was announced and presented

A very small goal, no goalkeeper and a pitch the size of a handball court: in Ivory Coast there are people who dream of seeing the popular maracana, a kind of six-a-side football born on campuses some 50 years ago, become an Olympic sport