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Ivory Coast Government Scraps Free Health Care for All
Côte d’Ivoire is abandoning free health care for all after a brief experiment because of skyrocketing costs. “In nine months the government had to pay 30 billion CFA francs [about US$60 million] under difficult circumstances,” Ivoirian...
President Alassane Ouattara Vows to Improve Security, Integrity of Ivorians
The Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, said Saturday, in his New Year’s Eve message to his compatriots worried about the recent violence attributed to the Republican Forces of Cote d’Ivoire (FRCI) that the state of insecurity in the country would...
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara Orders Establishment of a Fund for the Purchase of Arms in the Possession of Ordinary Citizens
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has given instructions for the establishment of a special fund earmarked for the purchase of arms in the possession of ordinary citizens, according to the country’s Prime Minister Guillaume Soro.
Ivorian President, Alassane Ouattara, Reiterates His Aim to Offer Free Education to Pupils Up to the Age 15
The Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, has reiterated his will to offer free education to pupils up to the age 15, said a statement of the council of ministers issued Thursday in the Ivorian economic capital.
Military Build-up in West Côte D’Ivoire Following Attacks
Peacekeepers with the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI), French Licorne military forces, and the national army Forces Républicaines de Côte d’Ivoire (FRCI), are building up their military presence in western Côte d’Ivoire to try to better...
Finding Peace After Côte D’Ivoire’s Power Shift
With power in Côte d’Ivoire having changed hands from Laurent Gbagbo to Alassane Ouattara, the social dynamic has shifted in Moyen-Cavally, creating new challenges for stability in the cocoa- and coffee-rich region where political partisanship runs...
President Alassane Ouattara Issues Hand of Friendship to Ivorian Popular Front And the Presidential Majority
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara Sunday issued what he called a hand of friendship and reconciliation to Laurent Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) and the Presidential Majority (LMP) which had supported the ousted head of state during the last...
Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Council President Dismissed From His Position
Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Council president, Pr Paul Yao N’dre was dismissed Monday and replaced by Francis Wodie, according to a decree read on the state-owned television (TCI).
