Four prominent opposition figures in the Ivory Coast have been excluded from the final electoral list, according to the Electoral Commission, leaving them ineligible to contest pivotal October ...

Tidjane Thiam, a former CEO of Credit Suisse and the main opposition leader in Ivory Coast, has been excluded from the country’s final list of presidential candidates ...

Economic successes do not obviate the need for political transition.In March of this year, The Economist magazine ran a story headlined "The Success of Ivory Coast is Africa's Best-Kept Secret." With ...

The fact that such political unrest seemed remotely plausible to many should give that same government pause. As the country ...

After returning to Ivory Coast in 2022, Thiam re-entered politics and rejoined the Democratic Party (PDCI), the former ...

War-divided Ivory Coast’s armed forces said on Tuesday they had evidence ... “It wouldn’t be in anyone’s favor to do such a thing now.” Coup rumors frequently feature in the former French colony’s ...

“The brains outside the country are all located in Ivory Coast”, he added, naming in particular two former army officers, Major Joanny Compaore and Lieutenant Abdramane Barry. A dozen military ...

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has announced that it successfully thwarted what it described as a “major coup plot” targeting ... were operating from Ivory Coast, identifying two ...

Tidjane Thiam, the former Credit Suisse CEO, has been formally named as the presidential candidate for Ivory Coast's main opposition party, PDCI, for the upcoming October election. Despite facing ...