August 24, 2018
The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed public sector loan agreements with Cote d’Ivoire and Malawi to help boost socio-economic development and living standards.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2018/08/ofid-signs-loan-agreements-help-strengthen-food-security-cote-divoire-malawi/
September 26, 2014
In the middle of downtown Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the aisles of a thriving supermarket are full of customers. But as they line up to pay for their items, there is one line to a cashier’s till that remains empty. It’s the “green cash register”, where the cashier does not provide plastic bags as this supermarket tries to implement a green policy.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/cote-divoire-chokes-on-its-plastic-shopping-bags/
August 16, 2014
The whole village of Gueyede in south-west Côte d’Ivoire gathers under the tattered roof of a shelter as the rain drizzles outside, and listens carefully as sub-prefect Kouassi Koffi talks.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/cote-divoire-steps-up-public-education-to-keep-ebola-count-at-zero-amid-west-africas-worst-outbreak/
August 1, 2014
François Kouamé, prisoner Number 67, proudly shows off a sow and her four piglets. Dressed in his rubber boots, he passes by two new tractors as he happily makes his way to a field where pretty soon cassava and corn plants will start growing. “Look at those sprouts. It is a lot of work!”
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/how-farming-in-making-cote-divoires-prisoners-feel-like-being-human-again/
June 4, 2014
Two years ago, it would have taken Catherine Adjoua almost an hour to travel from M’Badon, the isolated fishing area where she lives that has no asphalt roads, to reach her workplace some 13 kilometres away in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/cote-divoire-rides-the-fast-track-to-public-transport-development/
April 15, 2014
When Ivorian Thierry N’Doufou saw local school kids suffering under the weight of their backpacks full of textbooks, it sparked an idea of how to close the digital gap where it is the largest — in local schoolrooms.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/cote-divoires-tech-solutions-local-problems/
March 27, 2014
“I’m middle class. Definitively,” Sonia Anoh, a young and independent 30-year-old Ivorian tells IPS. Anoh has a master’s degree, earns 1,470 dollars a month working in marketing, lives alone, owns a car and is now shopping for a home.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/03/cote-divoires-middle-class-growing-disappearing/
November 18, 2013
All over the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, large cranes, involved in the construction of new buildings and highways, are dotted across the city skyline.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/cote-divoire-poised-at-a-development-crossroad/
November 8, 2013
At the Cocody-Anono community health centre, south-east of the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan, Bertine Bahi* regularly attends awareness sessions on Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) for women living with HIV.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/a-shortage-of-arvs-and-a-surplus-of-stigma-in-cote-divoire/
July 9, 2013
As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/saving-cote-divoires-fragile-forests-and-people/
February 8, 2013
The extradition of high-level allies of former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo from Ghana back to their home country, including a most recent one on Feb. 5, has brought renewed scrutiny to the Ivorian judiciary, which critics say is implementing a form of one-sided victor’s justice since the 2010 to 2011 post-election conflict.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/victors-justice-plays-out-in-cote-divoire/
December 1, 2012
When Emmanuel Kokou, a 28-year-old sex worker, moved from his native Togo to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in 2010, he knew there was a good chance that he had previously been exposed to HIV. But he had no intention of getting tested.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/anti-gay-stigma-hinders-bid-to-lower-cote-divoires-hiv-rate/
September 22, 2012
In his black boots and green fatigues – complete with arm patches bearing the name of the national army, Forces Republicaines de Côte d’Ivoire – Ousmane Kone looked every bit the soldier as he stood guard over an electricity and water distribution company one Tuesday afternoon in Abidjan.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/reluctant-farewell-to-arms-in-cote-divoire/
September 4, 2012
Yacouba Coulibaly was pursuing a doctorate in education at Cocody University in Abidjan before Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election violence started in 2010. But his classes were routinely disrupted by armed members of a powerful student federation that wished to hold meetings instead.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/cote-divoires-universities-shedding-a-legacy-of-violence-and-corruption/
August 14, 2012
Salimata Coulibaly, director of a medical centre in the town of Korhogo in the northern Cote d’Ivoire region of Savanes, stood before a chart displaying before-and-after photos of local children – one taken when each child arrived at the centre, and one after he or she responded to treatment for malnutrition.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/08/lean-times-get-leaner-in-northern-cote-divoire/
March 19, 2012
The group of children playing in a shaded courtyard in Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital Abidjan seem carefree. But when a car exhaust blasts, they tremble. When a soldier walks past, they shudder. And they become anxious when an unknown adult approaches them.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/the-lost-innocence-of-cote-drsquoivoirersquos-children/
March 15, 2012
"I would like to use contraception, but my husband is against it," says Bintou Moussa*. The 32-year-old mother has just given birth to her sixth child at the Abobo General Hospital in Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/men-still-make-the-decisions-on-reproductive-rights-in-cote-drsquoivoire/
March 14, 2012
One-year-old Angama Ouattara lies on a rusted hospital bed, a drip attached to her tiny, left foot. Her mother, Minata, sits on the edge of the mattress, smoothing out the sheets she had to bring from home.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/03/struggling-to-rebuild-cote-divoirersquos-health-system/
February 3, 2021
President Biden and his administration confront a very challenging situation within the United States and abroad. His predecessor, Mr. Trump, refused to accept the defeat or extend any cooperation to the incoming team.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/02/afghan-dilemma-bidenharris-administration/
July 25, 2017
In the dusty arid town of Dikwa, tens of thousands of Nigerians queue for hours in sweltering 40-degree heat for water. Fatuma is one of 100,000 people displaced in the Borno State town, the epicentre of Nigeria’s conflict. She sifts through remnants of food aid seeds, drying them out to prepare them to eat. Food is a scarcity here. Fatuma used to live on three meals a day. Today she is happy if aid agencies can provide her with a single meal.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2017/07/nigerias-ticking-time-bomb/