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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rejects talks with the leadership of the Tigray People's Liberation Front but says he is willing to talk to representatives "operating legally". The meeting with African Union (AU) representatives Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa, comes after his announcement of a "final phase" of an offensive on the region's capital Mekelle.
2020-11-27

Six top Guinean military officials, including the head of the Guinean armed forces, are killed in a plane crash in Liberia.
2013-02-11

The Italian news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata reports that 25 refugees have been found dead in a boat off the coast of Lampedusa.
2011-08-1

Tens of thousands of people from Côte d'Ivoire flee to Liberia due to ongoing violence in the country.
2011-03-19

Several dozen Rohingya boat refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are accepted to India at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands after being detained by the Thai Navy and rejected at sea, but face repatriation to Bangladesh.
2011-02-8

Thousands of refugees flee the Ivory Coast to neighbouring countries; at least 18,000 of them to Liberia.
2011-01-2

UN: Approximately 14,000 people have fled Côte d'Ivoire and headed to Liberia due to the recent presidential election dispute.
2010-12-25

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warns former rebel fighters not to get involved in the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire.
2010-12-8

Ivory Coasts' election commission in Côte d'Ivoire declares Alassane Ouattara the winner of the Ivorian presidential election but the Constitutional Council declares the announcement invalid as it missed the deadline to announce the results.
2010-12-2

A Dutch court finds Trafigura guilty of illegally dumping toxic waste in Côte d'Ivoire in 2006.
2010-07-23