YAMOUSSOUKRO( Reuters)-Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has named Tiemoko Meyliet Kone

leave the country.On Friday Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara and Ghana's President Nana Akufo

absentia on charges of plotting a coup against President Alassane Ouattara. Soro, who is in exile in

ABIDJAN( Reuters)-Ivory Coast is accelerating investment in schools, hospitals, and jobs in its northern region to provide alternatives to violent extremism, the prime minister said on Monday.... Northern Ivory Coast is far from commercial centres and borders Mali and Burkina Faso, where Islamist groups are active and have increasingly crossed the border to wage attacks.... Recruitment of local youth is a growing concern, Prime Minister Patrick Achi told journalists, adding that the state will

ABIDJAN-Ivory Coast's former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon said on Friday he would seek the nomination of the opposition PDCI party for the country's 2025 presidential election, challenging party leader and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam. Billon's decision to run could further divide the PDCI party that ruled Ivory Coast from independence until the late 1990s, but has struggled to regain power due to infighting. Thiam recently returned to the world's top cocoa-producing nation and won

DAKAR( Reuters)-The ruling party of Senegalese President Macky Sall has conceded defeat in the capital Dakar and the southern city of Ziguinchor in local elections widely seen as a test of Sall's popularity.... It congratulated the other candidates and called the vote a triumph of democracy.... According to preliminary results, the leading candidate for mayor of Dakar was Barthelemy Dias, who posted videos on social media of large crowds in the streets celebrating his victory....

JOHANNESBURG( BLOOMBERG)-South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for Covid-19 and is receiving treatment for mild symptoms." The President, who is fully vaccinated, is in self-isolation in Cape Town and has delegated all responsibilities to Deputy President David Mabuza for the next week," the presidency said in a statement on Sunday( Dec 12)." The President is in good spirits but is being monitored by the South African Military Health Service of the South African National De

Judges said prosecutors failed to prove their case.... In a written ruling issued confidentially on July 19 and made public this week, a panel of ICC judges approved a request by prosecutors to withdraw the warrant against Simone Gbagbo.“ The Chamber finds that developments at the trial and appeal stage of the case of Mr.... Ouattara ultimately prevailed and has been the president of Ivory Coast ever since....

ABIDJAN( Reuters)-Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo vowed on Sunday to continue in politics" until my death" as he launched a new party following his acquittal by the International Criminal Court and return from a decade abroad.... He declined to provide a definitive answer to that question on Sunday.... Gbagbo lost control of the party he founded, the Ivorian Popular Front, to a former ally while in prison for more than seven years in the Netherlands, but he retains a large and loya

CONAKRY( REUTERS)-Special forces soldiers apparently ousted Guinea’s long-serving President Alpha Conde on Sunday( Sept 5), telling the West African nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders.As the United Nations, US and Nigeria, the region’s dominant power, condemned any takeover by force, the elite army unit’s head, Mamady Doumbouya, said “ poverty and endemic corruption ” had driven his forces to remove Conde from office.“ We have dissolved