Ivory Coast

What We Can Learn From Africa's Response to Mali

Richard Attias | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Ecowas, Ivory Coast, Coup, Mali, Dr. Jean Ping, Alassane Ouattara, Al Qaeda, Mali Coup, World News

Leadership is back in Africa. Perhaps for the first time in the continent's history, an official body, the economic community of west African states has succeeded in ending a coup in a nearby nation. That's something to celebrate.

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Possible Mass Graves In Ivory Coast

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Ivory Coast Election, Laurent Gbagbo, Mass Grave, Ivory Coast Civil War, Alassane Ouattara, Mass Grave Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Duekoue, Duekoue, Icc, Ivory Coast, International Criminal Court, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Investigators with the International Criminal Court may have found mass graves in a western Ivory Coast town, a court official...

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The Dark Side of Côte d'Ivoire's Recovery

Matt Wells | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Côte D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Human Rights, Africa, Human Rights Watch, International, Alassane Ouattara, World News

It is high time for Côte d'Ivoire's international partners to show that in addition to standing with the Ouattara government, they stand with all the Ivorian crisis' victims.

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Mitt Romney Pushed For Amnesty In A Special Circumstance, As Newt Gingrich Advocates Doing

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.23.2012

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney worked with the state's Democratic leaders to temporarily stop the deportation of an African immigrant who w...

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Despite Rights Abuses, Clinton Praises African Government

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Ivory Coast Election, Video, Ivory Coast Violence, Alassane Ouattara, Hillary Clinton Alassane Ouattara, Ivory Coast President, Hillary Clinton, Ivory Coast, World News

LOME, Togo — After venturing to reclusive Myanmar, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed democratic reforms Tuesday in another place...

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The Libya Trial -- Victor's Justice at the ICC?

Seth Engel | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Libya, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, Kenya, Alassane Ouattara, International Law, Ivory Coast, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya Criminal Court, International Criminal Court Libya, World News

There are certain crimes -- be they war crimes or crimes against humanity -- that are illegal, no matter what your position in society or in which nation you reside.

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Laurent Gbagbo Charged With Crimes Against Humanity

AP | MIKE CORDER and LAURA BURKE | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Video, Laurent Gbagbo, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, Icc, Moammar Gadhafi, Ivory Coast, Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court Wednesday to fac...

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ICC Issues Arrest Warrant For Ivory Coast's Former President

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Laurent Gbagbo, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast, International Criminal Court Arrest Warrant, Ivory Coast, International Criminal Court Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo Icc Warrant, International Criminal Court, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A plane believed to be carrying former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo landed early Wednesday in the Netherlands a...

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Fake Journalist Found Guilty Of Rape

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: French Journalist, Rape, Hughes Denver Akassy, Sexual Harassment, Riverside Rapist, Ivory Coast, NY Crime, New York News

NEW YORK — An Ivory Coast native accused of holding himself out as a seasoned and suave French-language TV journalist to smooth-talk women was c...

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Rights Group: 13 Military Leaders Commited War Crimes In Ivory Coast

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast War Crimes, Ivory Coast, War Crimes Ivory Coast, Human Rights Watch, Election Violence Ivory Coast, Military Leaders Ivory Coast, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- An international rights group says in a Thursday report that 13 military leaders from both sides of Ivory Coast's political di...

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Côte d'Ivoire: ICC Judges OK Investigation

Human Rights Watch | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Côte D'Ivoire, Icc, Ivory Coast, Africa, Alassane Ouattara, World News

(Brussels) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) judges took a major step to ensure justice for victims in Côte d’Ivoire by autho...

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PHOTOS: Nearly Everything Exhibited At The Ivory Coast's National Museum Stolen

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, Art Theft, Ivory Coast Travel, Ivory Coast, Africa Travel, Museums, Travel News

Laura Burke, Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Looters stormed Ivory Coast's national museum during the country's bloody political crisis ea...

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Armed Men From Liberia Kill 15 In Nightly Raid In Ivory Coast

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast Raid, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, Liberia Ivory Coast, Liberia Raid, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Armed men from Liberia have killed at least 15 people in attacks on villages along the border over the last two days, Ivory Co...

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Hundred Reports Of Grave Human Rights Violations In Ivory Coast

AP | LAURA BURKE | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Laurent Gbagbo, UN Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Massacre, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Gbago, Ivory Coast Human Rights, Ivory Coast Human Rights Violations, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The United Nations says 26 people were killed in the last month in Ivory Coast and that residents blame most of the killi...

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Ivory Coast Launches Major Investigation Of Post-Election Violence

AP | ANITA SNOW | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast Investigation, Ivory Coast President, Ivory Coast, Africa, Ivory-Coast-Election-Violence, Ivory Coast Electon, Alassane Ouattara, Cote D'Ivoire, World News

UNITED NATIONS — All Ivorians will be held responsible for post-electoral violence that killed thousands of people, Ivory Coast President Alassa...

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Toward A New Côte d'Ivoire -- or the Selective Justice of the Past?

Matt Wells | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Laurent Gbagbo, Abobo, World News, International Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Ivory Coast, United Nations, Cote D'ivorie, United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, Alassane Ouattara, World News

The message was the same to the residents: to create a new Côte d'Ivoire, the abuse must stop, and the government must ensure justice by prosecuting the people responsible, regardless of who they are or whom they support.

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Ivory Coast at a Crossroads

Joel Kangha | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast Election, Ivory Coast, Ivory-Coast-Election-Violence, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast, Search for Common Ground, World News

If the people who have just taken office and their international supporters want to see a definitive close to Ivory Coast's dark chapter, they'll have to do more than say the right words.

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Life and Death in the Ivory Coast

Caroline Gluck | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast, Oxfam, Refugees, Cote D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast Refugees, Ivory Coast Crisis, Ivory Coast Violence, Impact News

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.

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Libya Triggers War Powers Act Deadline This Friday

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Gaddafi, Libya, Peace and Security Taskforce, Obama Libya, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Middle East, Egypt, Libya War, War Powers Act, Ivory Coast, War Powers Act Libya, Congress Libya, World News

The War Powers Act, created after Vietnam to ensure checks and balances during wartime situations, limits the president's ability to commit armed forces to conditions that are not present in the case of Libya.

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In the Shadows of Ivory Coast's War

Rajesh Panjabi | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Ivorian Refugees, Liberia, Ivory Coast War, Gaddafi Ivory Coast, Muammar Gaddafi, Ivory Coast, Gaddafi West Africa, Impact News

In 1990, militias deployed Gaddafi's tactics to terrorize our home country, Liberia, and ignite a civil war that claimed the lives of a quarter million Liberians. Today, Gaddafi's nightmare lives on in Ivory Coast.

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Suicide Or Assassination?

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: IB Coulibaly, Ivory Coast Warlord, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Violence, IB Coulibaly Death, IB Coulibaly Dead, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — IB Coulibaly, the renegade warlord who made no secret of his presidential ambitions, said he was being targeted for assas...

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Ivory Coast Liberation Forces Turn On Each Other

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast Election, Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast Civil War, Alassane Ouattara, World News

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast's new army turned its guns on a former ally who helped install the democratically elected president but faile...

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A Look At Embattled Dictators' Spouses

Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: First Ladies, Asma Al-Assad, Libya, Arab Protests, Suzanne Mubarak, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Anti-Government Protests, Belarus, Iran, Hosni Mubarak, Ivory Coast, Slidepollajax, Syria, World News

United Nations sources claim Britain and France are hoping to slap Muammar Gaddafi's second wife with sanctions that would prevent her from using her ...

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The Web As a Spotlight: An Alternative Look at Technology in the Arab Spring

Ben Cole | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Neda Soltan, Yemen, Twitter, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, War Reporting, Middle East, Youtube, Ivory Coast, Nicholas Kristof, Neda Agha Soltan, Overseas Reporting, Facebook, Technology, Syria, Technology News

Technology has not only made it possible for people around the world to peer into lives and circumstances across the globe, it's made many worldwide events impossible to ignore.

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Traumatized Refugees From the Ivory Coast: Too Scared to Go Home

Caroline Gluck | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Ivory Coast Refugees, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Civil War, Ivory Coast Violence, Ivory Coast Rebels, World News

Mother of three, Louise Blagnon, sits in the open air of the grounds of an abandoned school. Her face is etched with anxiety, clearly traumatized by the events of the past week.

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