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December 1
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Cote d'Ivoire: Anti-Gay Stigma Hinders Bid to Lower Côte d'Ivoire's HIV Rate
When Emmanuel Kokou, a 28-year-old sex worker, moved from his native Togo to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2010, he knew there was a good chance that he had previously been... Read more »
September 26
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Cote d'Ivoire: Call for Criminal Probe Over Toxic Dumping Scandal
Nouma Camara, a 40-year-old tailor, remembers waking up on Aug. 20, 2006 to a smell he described as "something catastrophic." His home in Akouedo village, in Côte d'Ivoire's... Read more »
September 25
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Cote d'Ivoire: New Cassava Varieties Bring Women Autonomy
Women farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are achieving greater autonomy and economic independence thanks to new varieties of cassava. Read more »
September 22
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Cote d'Ivoire: A Reluctant Farewell to Arms
In his black boots and green fatigues - complete with arm patches bearing the name of the national army, Forces Republicaines de Côte d'Ivoire - Ousmane Kone looked every bit... Read more »
September 5
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Cote d'Ivoire: Universities Shed Legacy of Violence, Corruption
Yacouba Coulibaly was pursuing a doctorate in education at Cocody University in Abidjan before Côte d'Ivoire's post-election violence started in 2010. But his classes were... Read more »
August 15
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Cote d'Ivoire: Lean Times Get Leaner in Northern Cote d'Ivoire
Salimata Coulibaly, director of a medical centre in the town of Korhogo in the northern Cote d'Ivoire region of Savanes, stood before a chart displaying before-and-after photos of... Read more »
August 14
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Cote d'Ivoire: Armed Forces Still Dictating Côte d'Ivoire's Law
Even as Côte d'Ivoire gradually recovers from the bloody events of the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis, massacres in the western part of the country and the frequent sound of... Read more »
August 10
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West Africa: UN Pushes for Piracy Summit
When the United Nations advocates the protection of the world's oceans, its political agenda transcends the battle against marine pollution, global warming, overfishing, greenhouse... Read more »
July 28
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Cote d'Ivoire: Punish Those Carrying Out Genital Mutilation, Say Campaigners
Nine women in the northern Côte d'Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation - the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been... Read more »
July 26
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Cote d'Ivoire: Security Gaps Fuel Cote d'Ivoire Prison Escapes
Eliane Negui knew just what to do when she got word that a group of inmates had escaped from Abidjan's main prison, MACA, earlier this month. After all, the 24-year-old, who has... Read more »
July 19
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Cote d'Ivoire: Law Offers Battered Women Little Protection
A shiver ran down Habiba Kanaté's* spine when she read about a policeman shooting and killing his wife in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire. "That could... Read more »
June 6
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Cote d'Ivoire: How Child Victims of Crisis Survive
Twelve-year-old Ahmed* pauses on his crutches in the narrow lane that leads from his house to the main road, glancing at the bullet holes still visible on the walls here in the... Read more »
May 21
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Cote d'Ivoire: Helping Victims of Post-Election Crisis Obtain Justice
Thousands of people suffered rape, torture and other violence during the post-electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire beginning in December 2010. But many survivors of rights... Read more »
April 10
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Cote d'Ivoire: Fishing Big Profits Out of Small Ponds
Mathieu Djessan looks over the four-hectare expanse of fish ponds with satisfaction. The aquaculture enterprise the 29-year-old runs here near the town of Tiassalé in... Read more »
March 26
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Cote d'Ivoire: Lack of Birth Documentation Inhibits Education
The births of tens of thousands of children during Côte d'Ivoire's eight-year rebellion were not formally recorded. Providing these children with birth certificates is one of... Read more »
March 19
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Cote d'Ivoire: The Lost Innocence of Nation's Children
At first sight the group of children playing in a shaded courtyard in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan seem carefree. But when a defunct car exhaust blasts, they tremble.... Read more »
March 15
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Cote d'Ivoire: Men Still Make the Decisions On Reproductive Rights
"I would like to use contraception, but my husband is against it," says Bintou Moussa*. The 32-year-old mother has just given birth to her sixth child at the Abobo General Hospital... Read more »
March 14
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Cote d'Ivoire: Struggling to Rebuild Nation's Health System
One-year-old Angama Ouattara lies on a rusted hospital bed, a drip attached to her tiny, left foot. Her mother, Minata, sits on the edge of the mattress, smoothing out the sheets... Read more »
February 24
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Cote d'Ivoire: Illicit Timber Trade Exposes the North to Drought
Environmental groups in Côte d'Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of wood from the African gum tree is exposing the north of the country to the encroaching desert. Read more »
October 10, 2011
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Liberia: Voters to Head for Polls After Campaign of Divisive Rhetoric
As Liberia gears up for Tuesday's presidential and legislative elections, officials stationed near the border with Ivory Coast have expressed concern that insufficient border... Read more »
September 13, 2011
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Cote d'Ivoire: Suspended Exports Dent Scrap Metal Dealers' Prospects
Between now and 2012, the Côte d'Ivoire government plans to establish a scrap metal processing industry that will supply finished products to domestic and regional markets.... Read more »
September 6, 2011
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Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic Waste Victims Wait Years for Compensation
Thousands of victims affected by toxic waste dumping in 2006 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, still have not received the economic compensation they were... Read more »
August 2, 2011
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Cote d'Ivoire: Help for Small Businesses Key to Relaunching Economy
The Ivorian government has begun compensating small and medium-sized businesses for damages suffered during the post-election crisis, in order to relaunch the economy. Read more »
July 28, 2011
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Cote d'Ivoire: Pro-Govt Forces Involved in Killings, Says Amnesty
More than half a million people remain displaced by Ivory Coast's post-election conflict and many are too afraid to return home for fear of ethnic reprisals, Amnesty International... Read more »
July 15, 2011
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Cote d'Ivoire: Govt, Civil Society Divided Over Atrocity Probe
Government and civil society in Côte d'Ivoire are divided over the scope of the investigations to be undertaken by the International Criminal Court into atrocities and... Read more »
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