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 ...

Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam has been excluded from the country’s final list of presidential candidates ...

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 ...

Panic has gripped Ivory Coast’s capital, Abidjan, as gunfire echoed across the city in what appears to be the early stages of a military coup or large-scale civil uprising. Reports emerging from the ...