Sources: Reuters
A chartered Air Côte d'Ivoire flight from The Gambia to the Ivory Coast, transporting the Gambia national football team to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, makes an emergency landing in Banjul, Gambia, due to a loss of cabin pressure lasting for more than nine minutes. All passengers suffer some degree of hypoxia including loss of consciousness. 2024-01-11
Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara reaches a deal with soldiers who seized the town of Bouake in a pay protest. The soldiers are seeking bonuses, pay rises and faster promotion. 2017-01-7
Partial results from Sunday's election give Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara an overwhelming lead (83.18 percent) on the way to a second five-year term. This weekend's vote was judged to be peaceful and transparent by observers, making it the first in Côte d'Ivoire’s history not to be marred by serious rights violations or irregularities. 2015-10-27
7 United Nations peacekeepers from Niger are killed in an ambush in Ivory Coast. 2012-06-8
A bus in Ivory Coast plunges into the capital Abidjan's lagoon, killing 12 people. 2011-08-5
Ivory Coast resumes exports of cocoa after a political crisis and brief civil war. 2011-05-10
Ivory Coast security forces kill at least six women marching in support of Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. 2011-03-3
An alliance of opposition parties that endorse the presidency of Alassane Ouattara in the Ivory Coast call for mass protests, following the presidential election. 2010-12-15
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is to seek talks with rival presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara to end the crisis in the country. The head of the Economic Community of West African States James Victor Gbeho rejects the idea of power-sharing talks. 2010-12-11
Voters in the Ivory Coast go to the polls for the long delayed presidential election. 2010-10-31