Sources: Reuters
Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council bars former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam from running in the upcoming presidential election, while approving five candidacies including President Alassane Ouattara and Gbagbo's wife Simone. 2025-09-8
The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calls on the population to remain vigilant. 2025-06-5
Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty of complicity in the murder of the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced "in absentia" to life imprisonment. Compaoré has been in exile in Ivory Coast ever since resigning to the presidency following the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising. 2022-04-6
Ivory Coast becomes the second country to receive vaccines via the COVAX initiative, with 500,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arriving in the country. 2021-02-26
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
2010–2011 Ivorian crisis: Heavy fighting continues in Abidjan, the largest city in the Ivory Coast between forces loyal to current President of the Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo and internationally-recognised claimant Alassane Ouattara. 2011-04-1
Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara enter Yamoussoukro, the capital of the Ivory Coast. 2011-03-30
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Belarus has "seriously violated" the arms embargo against the Ivory Coast, after a delivery of attack helicopters and material to the country. 2011-02-28
The death toll due to the political crisis in the Ivory Coast reaches 247 since the November 28th election.2011-01-14