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Zimbabwe’s international image has hit a new low, with the country’s name being used to describe a slum in Ivory Coast, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa revealed, citing a recent encounter with a Zimbabwean citizen.
Former Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba believes he can improve the state of the game in the West African nation if he becomes the new boss of the country’s football federation (FIF).
The 29-year-old refused to join the team at their last gathering in November but coach Patrice Beaumelle has included him in the squad for the tournament which gets underway on January 9 in Cameroon.
Gbagbo, with a decade-long exile behind him, this weekend oversaw his new African People’s Party’s congress as he seeks to “reunite the left” and use the occasion as a springboard to the 2025 presidential election.
Banny, 78, who was in office from 2005-2007, was being treated at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine after contracting the disease in Ivory Coast.
The International Criminal Court has dropped its arrest warrant for Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo over post-election violence that killed thousands in 2010-2011, according to a decision made public Thursday.
Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, who returned home last month a decade after falling from power, will meet ex-president Henri Konan Bedie this weekend, Bedie’s office said on Monday, in the latest step in the country’s long-running political crisis.
The former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, took police to task Sunday for violence during his long-awaited homecoming last week, but insisted the country had to move on.
Shells rained down on Mathurin Kouassi’s home in Ivory Coast’s economic hub Abidjan in March 2011 when the country was engulfed in a post-election conflict that claimed some 3,000 lives.
Suspected Islamist militants killed three members of Ivory Coast’s security forces overnight in attacks on the country’s border with jihadist-torn Burkina Faso, the army said Monday.