jailed for 20 years and 18-and-a-half years. Romulad Stefan Houphouet, who is now 37, and Absolom

ABIDJAN, Nov 17( Reuters)-The former chief executive of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, on Friday submitted his candidacy to lead one of Ivory Coast's main opposition parties, which could put him in the running for the 2025 presidential election. Thiam, 61, served as a minister under ex-president Henry Konan Bedie.... Struck in 2005, it was meant to help heal political rifts that led to civil war three years earlier. Ouattara won a third term after an election that opposition parties largely boyc

An archaeology breakthrough has discovered that humans inhabited rainforests around 150, 000 years ago, a staggering 80, 000 years earlier than previously believed. This revelation comes from an international team of researchers who revisited an archaeological site in West Africa.... This reflects a complex history of population subdivision, in which different populations lived in different regions and habitat types." We now need to ask how these early human niche expansions impacted the plants