Cuba coast guard kills 4 on Florida-registered boat
Cuba’s government said Wednesday that its soldiers killed four people aboard a speed boat registered in Florida that opened fire on officers in Cuban waters. Cuba’s Interior Ministry issued a ...
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What is at stake in AFCON’s Ivory Coast – Gabon game?
The last games of the AFCON group stage will take place tomorrow night in Morocco. Among them, the defending champion, Ivory Coast, which has already qualified for the final stage, ...
Dozens of migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libyan coast
The United Nations said Wednesday that 42 migrants were missing and presumed dead after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast last week. It was the latest in a series ...
France Antarctique, the forgotten French outpost on the coast of Brazil
Almost 500 years ago, French ships landed in what is now Brazil with a mission to found 'France Antarctique', a new colony on South America's Atlantic coast. Riven by religious ...
Alassane Ouattara wins Ivory Coast presidential election, according to provisional results
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara secured a fourth term Monday with 89.77 percent, according to the provisional results of the Independent Electoral Commission. Nearly nine million voters were eligible to ...
Ivory Coast combats uptick in disinformation campaigns around elections
The election campaign in Ivory Coast has come with an upsurge in disinformation on social media. Supporters of both the ruling and opposition parties have circulated fake news about presidential ...
Ivory Coast: In Abidjan’s Yopougon district, residents want ‘peace’ above all else
From our correspondent in Abidjan – In the Abidjan district of Yopougon, a historic stronghold of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, some residents reject politics, which they see as a divisive ...
Africa: Ivory Coast exhibition retraces history through football
In the bustling suburb of Abobo, a new museum exhibit is drawing crowds with an unexpected twist on the history of elephants. But these aren't just the massive gray creatures ...
Ivory Coast bars ex-president Gbagbo, opposition leader from presidential race
Ivory Coast’s constitutional council has excluded former president Laurent Gbagbo and opposition leader Tidjane Thiam from the October 25 presidential election. Both were removed from the electoral register – Thiam ...
Former Ivory Coast PM Guillaume Soro says ending self-imposed exile
Ivory Coast's former prime minister Guillaume Soro, sentenced to life in prison for undermining national security, on Sunday said he was ending his self-imposed exile that began in 2019. Issued on: ...