Nearly 200 ex-combatants with the rebel Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) have been given diplomas by the United Nations after completing a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme at Ferkessédougou in the north of Côte d'Ivoire.

Angolan ambassador to Cote D'ivoire, Gilberto Buta Lutucuta, Saturday granted an audience to a team of students from Cocody University, with whom he discussed the teaching of Portuguese language there, Angop learnt.

Since the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement in March 2007, Côte d'Ivoire has been healing the wounds of a civil war that divided the country for more than four years. Major challenges remain in reconciling different political and ethnic groups and in reviving the confidence of a vibrant business sector that once made the country one of West Africa's economic powerhouses.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has expressed satisfaction with the existing warm relations between Nigeria, Thai and Cote d'Ivoire, which he noted, were getting stronger.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The ambassador of Angola to Cote d'Ivoire Gilberto Buta Lutucuta and the West African nation's Parliament speaker, Mamadou Koulibaly, expressed satisfaction with the current state of friendship relations between the two countries.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The Angolan ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Gilberto Buta Lutucuta met last Thursday in Abidjan city, with his highness, Aga Khan, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, who expressed his desire to visit the country.

The Security Council today welcomed the news that Côte d'Ivoire will be holding previously delayed presidential elections on 30 November, and urged the West African nation to redouble its efforts to meet that vital goal on the path to peace.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.