Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire News

Although the security situation significantly improved in 2013, security conditions can change quickly and without warning.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By continuing to browse our site, you are giving your consent for us to set cookies.

Forensic scientists and doctors prepare for the exhumation of a mass grave site on the grounds of a mosque, in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, April 4, 2013.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Security forces in Ivory Coast used teargas to disperse hundreds of students demonstrating Monday against overcrowded classrooms and empty libraries at the country's largest university, sending at least two students to the hospital with injuries, according to witnesses.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of a 22-year-old eastern Kansas woman and her 18-month-old daughter have recovered her car and taken a man in for questioning.

This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa .

Ivory Coast mobile telecoms companies risk losing their licences if they do not improve their poor levels of service, a minister said on Monday.

Everyone knows that when a company gathers personal information about you, via cookies on the web or settings on your smartphone, they're likely to sell that information.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast has a ways to go before it makes a clean break from civil conflict that resurfaced in the wake of disputed 2010 elections, a rights official said.

Wary of a backlash, Cte d'Ivoire's government has hesitated to charge its own supporters of crimes committed during the 2010-2011 poll violence, something that has raised doubts about its commitment to impartial justice, say analysts.

Ivory Coast Republican Forces soldiers of the logistics battalion, part of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali, gather at the Ivory Coast's army headquarters in Abidjan before leaving for Bamako, Mali, on May 2, 2013.

ROB Insight is The Globe and Mail's exclusive feature led by a team of award-winning editors and writers who provide you with in-depth analysis on breaking business news and the issues that matter most.

President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil... President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar ... (more)

Sierra Leonean Minister of State, Finance and Economic Development, Alhaji Foday Mansaray, has called for road network among the four Mano River Union countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast.

Researchers at IBM, using movement data collected from millions of cell-phone users in Ivory Coast in West Africa, have developed a new model for optimizing an urban transportation system.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Ivory Coast's justice minister says the government is open to investigating top security officials accused by United Nations experts of raking in millions of dollars through "warlord-style predatory economic activities." Gnenema Coulibaly said on Monday that the government would need to see proof, but that "the government ... (more)

A report released by a United Nations commission this week said it has identified thousands of ammunition rounds produced in Sudan that were used by forces loyal to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo.

Ivory Coast policemen arrive to disperse supporters of Cisse Bacongo, one of the candidates to the municipal elections in Koumassi, on April 22, 2013, in Koumassi, a popular district of Abidjan, as protesters demonstrate to denouce frauds during the vote.

A new report from a U.N. expert panel raises the possibility that former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo received substantial ammunition transfers from Sudan as he clung to power during postelection violence two years ago.

Plateau, the business area in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast. Following a crippling decade-long political crisis, the government hopes to raise its oil output to around 200,000 barrels per day in five years thanks to recent discoveries and ongoing exploratory drilling.