France will return to the country the talking drum called Djidji Ayôkwé, from the Ebrie community, which was an instrument of communication and resistance for the indigenous populations at the time of French colonisation

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