E lections in Ivory Coast have a tendency to turn bloody. Disputes over the result of the presidential election in 2000 were ...

Thousands of supporters of Ivory Coast's opposition candidate Tidjane Thiam gathered in Abidjan on Saturday to protest ...

Street names in Ivory Coast's economic capital have taken on a decidedly more local flavour over the past few weeks, as ...

Tension is mounting after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso. Officials say a plot to overthrow Capt Ibrahim Traoré has been ...

Faithful in Ivory Coast on Wednesday joined a mass in memory of Pope Francis, admired across much of Africa for his ...

Cocoa grinders in Ivory Coast, the world’s top producer, are struggling with poor-quality beans with unusually high levels of ...

Above average rainfall last week across most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa growing regions is expected to boost the development ...

An informal network of small private operators ensures an essential supply of drinking water in some of the poorer ...

Ivory Coast's main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam has been removed from the electoral list following a court ruling on his citizenship.

The international police agency Interpol says that police raids have rescued 33 West Africans from a human trafficking ring ...

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in support of the military junta after an ...

Thousands of Tidjane Thiam's supporters protested in Abidjan against his exclusion from Ivory Coast's presidential vote due ...