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Pardoned Ivorian soldiers arrive home after six months in Malian captivity

Forty-six Ivorian soldiers recently pardoned by Mali's junta flew home to Ivory Coast's Abidjan airport on Saturday after around six months in captivity, footage on state television showed.

Reuters

49 Ivory Coast soldiers pardoned by Mali's junta leader

The leader of Mali’s military junta has pardoned 49 soldiers from neighboring Ivory Coast who were convicted of undermining Mali's state security and conspiracy against the government

The Independent UK

Haller in Dortmund’s Training Squad after Cancer Treatment

Sébastien Haller was included in Borussia Dortmund's squad Friday when the team flew to a winter training camp in Spain, in the latest step toward the Ivory Coast striker's return to action following treatment for testicular cancer. Haller needed two operations and chemotherapy after the diagnosis emerged in July during…

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‘Retirement will come the day I’m buried’: Ivory Coast grandmothers are left holding the baby

Young people are abandoning their villages and children for the bright lights, leaving their mothers to pick up the pieces

The Guardian - UK

Mali sentences 46 Ivorian soldiers to 20 years for conspiring against government

Mali has sentenced 46 soldiers from Ivory Coast to 20 years imprisonment for conspiring against the government, and three more to death in absentia, a court judgment from the West African country said on Friday.

Reuters

Eleven sentenced to life in prison for 2016 Ivory Coast beach attack

Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison in Ivory Coast on Wednesday after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach nearly seven years ago.

France 24

11 convicted over deadly extremist attack in Ivory Coast

Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on an Ivory Coast tourist beach nearly seven years ago

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A look back at the major African news stories of 2022

From the COP27 climate summit in Egypt to coups d'état in Burkina Faso and the French military withdrawal from Mali, FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of the news highlights from Africa this year.

France 24

Ivory Coast battles chocolate companies to improve farmers’ lives

Ivory Coast is the world’s top cocoa-producing country but receives just 4% of the $100bn chocolate industry’s profits.

Al Jazeera

Tonight's rugby news as tragic World Cup player dies and Eddie Jones admits mistake

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Who is Datro Fofana? Chelsea ‘on verge’ of signing Ivory Coast wonderkid

The Blues have moved quickly to snap up the 19-year-old striker and will be hoping he can emulate the form of a certain Manchester City striker after being dubbed ‘the next Haaland’

Daily Mirror

Wilfried Zaha crowned Crystal Palace Fans' Footballer of the Year as Newcastle star wins top award

The Ivory Coast attacker has entertained fans over the course of the year with his exciting play and direct style, ending the year on 15 goals and two assists

Football London

Meet Ivory Coast's friendly elephant, who is nonetheless concerning locals

Logro the Elephant regularly visits inhabitants of Tchébloguhé village in central Ivory Coast. Locals (who named him Logro) have developed various theories to explain his presence in the area. Some believe his mother died, while others think he's one of their ancestors reincarnated. Our Observer believes that Logro spends time…

France 24

West African leaders agree to create regional peacekeeping force

West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups, a senior official said.

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2016 Grand Bassam beach resort attack trial opens in Ivory Coast

In tonight's edition: The trial opens in Ivory Coast over the 2016 jihadist attack at the Grand Bassam beach resort outside Abidjan. Also, hundreds protest in South Africa against the upcoming release of Janusz Walus, the man who murdered anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993. Finally, there's heartbreak for Tunisia…

The Independent UK

4 appear in court over terror attack at Ivory Coast beach

Four men charged in connection with a 2016 terror attack on a beach in Ivory Coast have appeared in court

Reuters

Ivory Coast trial opens for 18 accused in Grand Bassam beach attack

The trial of 18 people accused of responsibility for the deadly 2016 attack on a beach resort in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, opened on Wednesday in the country's main city, Abidjan.

The Independent UK

Ble Goude returns to Ivory Coast after 11 years in exile

Ivory Coast's former youth minister Charles Ble Goude has returned to his home country after more than a decade in exile

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Former Ivory Coast militia leader Ble Goude returns home after exile

Charles Ble Goude, a former militia leader who was acquitted of crimes against humanity related to his role in Ivory Coast's civil war, returned from exile on Saturday as politicians sought to reconcile after years of instability and conflict.

Al Jazeera

Gbagbo ally Charles Ble Goude returns to Ivory Coast

Former right-hand man to the ex-president was a key figure in post-electoral violence that swept the country in 2010-11.

France 24

Ivory Coast's Charles Blé Goudé, key figure in post-election violence, makes homecoming

Charles Ble Goude, a key figure in post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the country Saturday for the first time in more than eight years, hinting that his political ambitions remained undimmed.

The Guardian - UK

Gold, guns, gangs: on patrol with the elite unit saving Ivory Coast’s forests

After deforestation for cocoa and goldmining reached alarming rates, the African country set up a security team with a mission to stamp out illegal activity

Al Jazeera

Ivory Coast to withdraw from UN peacekeeping force in Mali

Ivory Coast is embroiled in a diplomatic fight with Mali over the continued detention of 46 of its soldiers since July.

Al Jazeera

FIFA, UN bring football training to classrooms in Ivory Coast

The football training programme is being supported by UNESCO and has piloted in three countries including Ivory Coast.

Reuters

Ivory Coast to withdraw from U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali- letter

Ivory Coast will gradually withdraw its contribution of military and police from a United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali, according to a letter by its ambassador to the U.N., after Bamako detained 46 of its soldiers in July.

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