Tag: Ivory
EU strengthens rules to dry up ivory trade
The European Commission announced on Thursday the ban on the sale of ivory on the domestic market. A long-awaited advance to better counter the illegal trade and the massacres of…
in Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo maintains the vagueness of his ambitions
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo during the launching congress of his new party, the PPA-CI, in Abidjan, October 17, 2021. SIA KAMBOO / AFP Former President Laurent Gbagbo blows hot…
In Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo officially launches his new movement
Laurent Gbagbo during the congress of the Party of African Peoples-Côte d’Ivoire (PPA-CI), in Abidjan, October 17, 2021. SIA KAMBOO / AFP Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo officially launched on…
Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccination – view
ARCHIVE – Helpers in special protective clothing in an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Jerome Delay / AP / dpa The Ministry of Health…
Ivory Coast football is still waiting for its president
Former Ivorian international player Didier Drogba in Geneva, in October 2020. HAROLD CUNNINGHAM / AFP After more than a year of powerlessness, Ivorian football is still looking for a boss.…
In Ivory Coast, “Abobo-la-Guerre” in search of a new image and a better future
Members of the Les Enfants d’Abobo association pose in front of a fresco by the painter Obou, on May 4, 2021. YOUENN GOURLAY They never thought they would see that…
In Ivory Coast, “cocoa farmers are chocolates”
A cocoa sorting center, in Sobre, Côte d’Ivoire, in March 2017. SIA KAMBOO / AFP Oyez, hey, the sad story of cocoa planters… The bad news has just fallen. For…
In Ivory Coast, the production of cola nuts explodes
Kola nuts in Anyama, Ivory Coast, in July 2019. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP Slumped in a chair in front of his store, cigarette in the corner of his mouth and…