Sources: Reuters
Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) imposes a nationwide blockade on fuel and other goods imported from neighboring countries while besieging Malian government-held cities and towns. An unknown number of fuel trucks from Senegal and the Ivory Coast violating JNIM's blockade have been attacked and burned by militants. 2025-09-8
Seventeen people are killed and 23 more injured after a collision between a bus and a truck in Ponan-Ouinlo, Ivory Coast. 2025-01-21
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo returns to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for the first time in nearly 10 years, after the International Criminal Court upheld his acquittal for his role in the violence committed in the aftermath of the 2010 presidential elections earlier this year. The government of current president Alassane Ouattara supported his return as necessary for reconciliation, but did not comment if he will be imprisoned for misappropriating funds from a regional bank, for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November 2019. 2021-06-17
The World Health Organization asks six African countries (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) to be on the alert for possible Ebola outbreaks after Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo reported new cases that signaled a resurgence of the outbreak. 2021-02-16
In Ivory Coast, former rebel leader, prime minister and presidential candidate for next year's general election, Guillaume Soro, could face prison for life over an alleged coup plot that involved amassing weapons, says the country's public prosecutor. 2019-12-26
Voters in the Ivory Coast go to the polls for a presidential election with incumbent Alassane Ouattara favoured to win. 2015-10-25
A bus in Ivory Coast plunges into the capital Abidjan's lagoon, killing 12 people. 2011-08-5
Rebel forces seize a third town in western Ivory Coast from government forces.2011-03-7
At least two people are killed in the Ivory Coast after Ivorian forces open fire on protesters urging the resignation of President Laurent Gbagbo. 2011-02-19
Kenya calls on African nations to oust Ivory Coast incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo from office, by force if necessary, if he does not step down. 2010-12-18