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Ivory Coast’s ruling party has strengthened its hold on power, winning nearly three-quarters of seats in parliamentary elections held on Saturday, according to final results announced by the Independent Electoral Commiss...

Ivory Coast said it is strengthening security along its northern border in response to "unusual refugee flows" thought to be caused by armed groups' attacks on civilians in neighbouring Mali, which is battling a jihadist...

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara was reelected to a fourth term in an election marked by low turnout and empty streets in the economic capital of Abidjan, provisional results showed Monday.

Candidates in Ivory Coast’s presidential election held their final rallies Thursday as the campaign officially concluded in the West African nation of 30 million people.

As tension continues to mount in Ivory Coast ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, a gendarme has been shot and killed while on patrol in the south of the country.

The Ivorian government has imposed a ban on public meetings and demonstrations aimed at contesting the exclusion of key opposition figures from the upcoming presidential election on October 25. The decision follows the p...

One of the main opposition parties in Ivory Coast has denounced what it says are “arbitrary arrests” of six party members, calling the arrests part of a broader crackdown following the disqualification of key rivals to P...

Ouattara’s candidacy is contested after he changed the constitution in 2016 to remove the presidential term limit.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Ivory Coast ‘s capital Abidjan on Saturday to demand the reinstatement on the electoral list of main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam, a former CEO of Credit Suisse, who was barred from...

Ivory Coast announced a cholera outbreak on Thursday, confirming seven deaths from the disease.

Ivory Coast opposition leader and former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam has been excluded from the country's final list of presidential candidates, rendering him ineligible to contest an October election, a party offi...

Tidjane Thiam, leader of Ivory Coast's main opposition party, has been removed from the electoral list ahead of the October 25 presidential election.

Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong military presence, the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial power.

At the end of July, Malagasy and Ivorian security forces dismantled an Islamic State network, according to an investigation by Le Monde. The network was reportedly set up to facilitate the travel of jihadists from the Mi...

A tanker truck crashed into a bus in northern Ivory Coast, killing 13 people and injuring 44, the Transportation Ministry and local media said Saturday.

Flooding and landslides in Ivory Coast’s largest city of Abidjan have left at least 24 people dead following a week of heavy rains, four times the usual volume in some cases, authorities said Tuesday.

The Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire will have to wait again for the holding of its thirteenth ordinary congress.

Tidjane Thiam, a former boss of banking giant Credit Suisse and favourite to lead Ivory Coast's main opposition party before 2025 elections, drew thousands of supporters on Saturday in his first rally since announcing hi...

Ivory Coast's presidency on Monday said Robert Beugre Mambe, the governor of Abidjan, was appointed as prime minister, after the government was dissolved earlier this month. President Alassane Ouattara removed Prime Mini...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, a senior public official announced Friday, in yet another major reshuffle in the West African nation. Prime M...