Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire News

AN AUSTRALIAN mining company caught up in war crimes allegations in Africa is about to sign off on a deal that will tie it to a British firm responsible for dumping toxic chemical waste that has killed or affected thousands of people.

By Loucoumane Coulibaly Abidjan - A row over voter eligibility could further delay Ivory Coast's election by several months and analysts and diplomats say it may deepen a political crisis by playing into the hands of hardliners.

Thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement thanks to maneuverings by a shadowy but "influential" figure in Ivory Coast , where the dumping occurred, the victims' lawyer said Wednesday.

The U.K. and France are the latest countries to jump on the bandwagon to force Israel to investigate the accusations in the Goldstone report.

In this scene from Dan Chaon's very bleak but memorable unreliable-narrator / mistaken-identity novel Await Your Reply , a young American woman named Lucy goes into a hair salon in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The country is French speaking, and Lucy is apprehensive about communicating.

Abidjan - A close ally of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said on Wednesday that it was not possible to organise presidential elections by the scheduled date of November 29.

Measures to reduce loss to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes such as abolishing user fees, paying transportation costs, providing meals and improving staff training would be cost-effective even if they prevented less than half of patients from failing to return to the clinic, according to projections based on data from Cote d'Ivoire.

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It started with a story about nothing. Last week, Britain's Guardian newspaper posted a short, vague article on its website about a question being asked in Parliament.

The cost of inputs has gone up, price paid for pineapple down: Ivorien growers are in a jam.

The Alta Group has strengthened its French office and appointed Francois-Xavier Meurville as an associate in its EMEA Region.

Freedom of Speech , Cyber-Activism , Environment , Law , Media , Industry Languages: English Full Category List Excerpt Trafigura, the British oil trader, has finally released The Guardian newspaper from a secret injunction preventing it from reporting the so-called Minton Report, after an extraordinary week of online activity.

Lawyers for an oil trading firm have abandoned attempts to stop the British press running a story about the dumping of toxic waste in west Africa.

Just after 7.30pm Carter-Ruck, libel lawyers for Trafigura, wrote a letter to the Guardian which said the newspaper should regard itself as "released forthwith" from any reporting restrictions.

Article:Twitter helped quash injunction, UK newspaper says:/g/a/2009/10/14/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025764F004ED448.DTL Article:Twitter helped quash injunction, UK newspaper says:/g/a/2009/10/14/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025764F004ED448.DTL 09:07 PDT -- A prominent British newspaper is hailing Twitter supporters for helping quash an injunction that ...

The Guardiannewspaper in Britain said it is now free to report on a parliamentary question relating to oil company Trafigura, which last month offered to pay compensation to 31,000 victims of pollution caused by waste dumped in Ivory Coast.

In the Synod Hall at this afternoon, the Ninth General Congregation of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops was held in the presence of the Pope.

This letter arrived in the internet editor's inbox on Monday. After giving the matter at least two seconds of thought and consideration, he has decided not to reply, but he did wonder if any readers had also been chosen or received similar emails.

Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo will be a candidate in the forthcoming presidential elections set for Nov.

A plan to develop a biodiversity corridor across the border between Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia will be the focus of discussions to be held in Abidjan next week in cooperation the United Nations and other organizations.