Full Coverage: Cote d'Ivoire

11/13/2007 Despite a ban by the UN and other efforts by the international community to stop the sale of conflict diamonds, porous West African borders have allowed the diamonds to reach major markets, according to recent reports.

09/21/2007 On this year's International Day of Peace the majority of news streams in from Africa, and it is not all bad.

06/08/2007 Civil war in Ivory Coast has been financed partly by cocoa, according to a new report that urges consumers and chocolate companies to help end the financing of conflict.

03/28/2007 A deal to name a key rebel leader to a power-sharing government could help end a dangerous political stalemate that has divided Cote d'Ivoire since 2002.

03/15/2007 The "horrifying extent" of sexual violence against women and girls in the Ivory Coast conflict is exposed in a new report today.

03/07/2007 Recent United Nations Security Council Resolutions have put Côte d’Ivoire on track for elections late next year and extended the UN peacekeeping mission, but have provided little help in improving everyday life for millions of children and youth.

02/09/2007 Since 2002, hundreds of thousands of Ivoirians have been forced from their homes by civil conflict. The future of these internally displaced persons is complicated by the same nationality and voting rights issues that prolong the conflict itself.

09/11/2006 Il bilancio delle vittime dell'inquinamento da rifiuti tossici ad Abidjan, la capitale della Costa d'Avorio, si aggrava ancora: fonti del ministero della Sanità parlano oggi di sei morti e novemila intossicati. I rifiuti chimici erano stati scaricati nella notte tra il 19 e il 20 agosto da una nave battente bandiera panamense e trasportati illegalmente nelle discariche della città. Nella capitale ivoriana una vera e propria emergenza sanitaria con migliaia di ricoveri al giorno per disturbi polmonari, eruzioni cutanee, vomito, mal di testa e diarrea. Secondo Greenpeace la nave avrebbe caricato i rifiuti in Spagna e navigato per mesi alla ricerca di un ormeggio rifiutatogli da ben 5 paesi. Secondo altre fonti, invece, avrebbe puntato direttamente Abidjan dove sarebbe rimasta ormeggiata a lungo prima di effettuare lo scarico reso possibile grazie ad una "mazzetta" di 26 milioni di euro pagata alle autorità del porto di Abidjan. "L’Africa si sta trasformando in una vera e propria pattumiera delle nostre nefandezze, degli sprechi dei Paesi ricchi, dei Paesi occidentali” - denuncia l'ex direttore della Misna Giulio Albanese.

06/09/2006 Pro-government militias in Cote d'Ivoire will no longer take part in a much-delayed disarmament program as scheduled. The program is viewed as key to holding presidential elections later this year.

05/25/2006 Government forces in Ivory Coast, their allied militias and rebels are all committing serious abuses against civilians, says a new report that warns of serious concerns about violence in the run-up to the October elections.

04/12/2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 11 (OneWorld) - Investors concerned about illegal child labor on West African plantations are demanding that Hershey Co. spill the beans on where the candy maker gets its cocoa.

03/21/2006 Low cocoa prices have meant severe poverty and even child slavery for many families in West Africa, says a faith-based social justice group offering fair trade alternatives in their Webstore.

03/02/2006 Just two weeks ago, Cote d'Ivoire's government announced that students would now proceed where they left off over two years ago--with final exams.

02/07/2006 The Security Council has authorized the transfer of U.N. troops from Liberia to Cote d’Ivoire in the wake of anti-U.N. violence. 200 soldiers from the Nigerian contingent will be transferred to the Cote d’Ivoire mission until March 31 and individual sanctions against members of the Young Patriots movement are expected on Tuesday, a move many fear will incite more violence.

01/27/2006 About 400 UN staff members in Ivory Coast have been evacuated to Gambia and Senegal in the wake of attacks on the UN offices.

01/20/2006 Abidjan remains at a standstill and U.N. peacekeepers were forced to retreat from two more bases Thursday after protesters ignored President Gbagbo's plea for peace. The "Young Patriots" are demanding that U.N. and French troops, whom they accuse of inflaming internal conflict, leave the country.

01/19/2006 Five people were killed and ten injured during anti-U.N. clashes near the Liberian border Wednesday. Young members of the pro-President Gbagbo movement took over the state television station and looted and torched U.N. and NGO offices.

01/18/2006 Ivory Coast's frail peace process came under sharp attack yesterday as protests by pro-government youth targeting the UN peacekeeping mission went into a second day and the ruling party announced it was quitting the government.

01/18/2006 Self-declared "patriots" took to the streets in Abidjan to protest the decision by international mediators to disband Cote d'Ivoire's National Assembly. The ruling party disagreed, saying parliament should remain in office and international monitors cannot interfere in state affairs.

12/07/2005 Much of the chocolate found on supermarket shelves continues to be produced under appalling conditions—despite years of public outrage and consumer demand for change. But smaller chocolate companies are showing that there is another way.