Seven UN peacekeepers from Niger were killed in an ambush in western Ivory Coast on Friday, in the deadliest attack on the force since its deployment in 2004, a UN spokesman said.

The UN Security Cou

Zambia conjured up a shock when they toppled star-studded Ivory Coast 8-7 in a penalty shoot-out to claim their first ever Africa Cup of Nations title on Sunday.

With the sides goalless after extra t

Football star Didier Drogba says he jumped at the chance to use his status as a unifying figure in Ivory Coast to help his country heal the wounds of the savage violence which erupted last year.

The

United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex for food, according to a United States Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks.

A group of 44 Indians have been evacuated from Abidjan, the capital of civil war-torn Ivory Coast, to neighbouring Ghana, taking the total number of Indians who have been shifted in last one week to 110.

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has been placed under house arrest, said President Alassane Ouattara’s Government.

Gbagbo, who claimed victory in the November presidential run-off and ref

A cleric who was part of a Bangladeshi peacekeeping contingent under the UN has died of a heart attack and a physician has been shot at in the west African nation of Ivory Coast.

Imam Abdus Salam, wh

Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara's forces, backed by French and UN troops, captured his besieged rival Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan on Monday at the climax of a deadly months-long crisis.

A televisi

United Nations and French helicopters in Ivory Coast fired rockets on strongman Laurent Gbagbo's residence on Sunday in retaliation to attacks by his forces on the U.N. headquarters and civilians in r

The U.N. says more than 100 bodies have been found in Ivory Coast in the past 24 hours, some of them burned alive.
About 60 were killed in one incident and about 40 people in another that appears to h