In Nigeria, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, children and families continue to go hungry in many areas of the country.
Edward Zwick | Posted 02.03.2012
The Kimberley Process's refusal to address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny has rendered it hopelessly ineffectual. In effect, it has become an accomplice to diamond laundering.
AP | ANITA SNOW | Posted 09.26.2011
UNITED NATIONS — All Ivorians will be held responsible for post-electoral violence that killed thousands of people, Ivory Coast President Alassa...
Katherine Marshall | Posted 08.11.2011
The final two days of the Fes Forum grappled with two large issues of the times: corruption and democracy.
Caroline Gluck | Posted 07.20.2011
In the end, the traumatic two-day journey as they fled for their lives proved too much for 90-year-old Solia Bah. She ran barefoot with 10 members of her family as armed men attacked the city of Bloléquin in western Ivory Coast.
Louis Belanger | Posted 06.15.2011
I'm part of an Oxfam team travelling to western Ivory Coast to plan how best to respond to the escalating humanitarian needs in the country. Starti...
Marcelo Giugale | Posted 06.13.2011
We can build institutions good enough and legitimate enough not just to prevent violent conflict, but also to avoid falling back into it. The police will be "good" when the streets are safe.
Louis Belanger | Posted 06.13.2011
More than 120,000 Ivorians have fled -- and continue to flee -- into neighboring Liberia.
Michelle Chen | Posted 06.09.2011
The crisis engulfing the Ivory Coast is a lesson in how even the trappings of democracy can fail to keep a fragile nation from breaking apart. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
AP | By ANITA SNOW | Posted 06.08.2011
UNITED NATIONS -- This week's offer by Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo's top three generals to surrender evidently was a "trick" to buy time, the...
Posted 06.07.2011
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called for a major humanitarian response in Ivory Coast this week, as co...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 06.06.2011
With the battle for control of the Ivory Coast nearing an end, explosive divisions remain unresolved and revenge killings are expected after months of unthinkable horror.
Caroline Gluck | Posted 06.05.2011
"I cry every night," Pauline Bah told me. "I'm alone without my husband. It's hard to be alone in a strange country with the children."
AP | Posted 06.04.2011
PARIS -- Ivory Coast's ambassador to France, who was appointed by the country's democratically elected leader Alassane Ouattara, says embattled strong...
Reuters | Tim Cocks and Ange Aboa | Posted 06.04.2011
April 5, 2011 5:04:42 AM By Tim Cocks and Ange Aboa ABIDJAN, April 5 (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's presidential claimant launche...
AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and MARCO CHOWN OVED | Posted 06.02.2011
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — With most of the country now controlled by his opponent, and with both his home and the presidential palace surrounded, I...
Harold Pollack | Posted 05.28.2011
With the world distracted by happenings in Egypt, Japan, Libya, and elsewhere, ex-President Laurent Gbagbo is exploiting the situation in Côte d'Ivoire to commit serious human rights violations.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011
Some government leaders keep going and going. They would rather see their country descend into anarchy than leave office. Gaddafi is one. Mugabe is another. So is the president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo.
Kimberly Abbott | Posted 05.25.2011
I spoke with Gilles Yabi, Crisis Group's West Africa Project Director, about Côte d'Ivoire's mounting crisis and how to keep the conflict from spilling across borders and destabilizing the entire West African region. Listen to our conversation here.
Peter Biro | Posted 05.25.2011
Over 30,000 people have fled to Liberia after violence broke out in Ivory Coast following disputed presidential elections there. Incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step down.
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
Fifty years almost to the day after the catastrophic assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, the journalist Howard French is sketching an alternative path ahead for African development today.
John Dramani Mahama | Posted 05.25.2011
Could it be that Africa has been witness to so much violence and oppression that we have actually come to believe it should be an acceptable, if not automatic, response?
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011
Once known as the Paris of West Africa, the Ivory Coast has undergone a decade of turmoil. The latest deadlock threatens regional peace and could influence dozens of elections scheduled throughout the continent this year.
Isobel Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011
When leaders like Laurent Gbagbo refuse to budge, the choice for international players comes down to intervention or sheepish retreat. Responsibility for good governance ultimately rests with a nation's leaders and people themselves.
Jendayi E. Frazer | Posted 05.25.2011
Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo is living up to the stereotype of an African leader clinging to power, disconnected from the country's citizens and ignoring their expressed will.
Olusegun Obasanjo | Posted 03.19.2012