•Salah Mohamed Salah scored as Egypt won 3-2 to dump defending champions Ivory Coast out of the Africa Cup of Nations in a thrilling quarter-final yesterday. Omar Marmoush and Ramy Rabia netted for Egypt, then Ahmed Aboul-Fetouh conceded an own goal before half-time. Salah then edged closer to a first Africa Cup of Nations winners’ […]...
•Ivory Coast forward Amad Diallo (L) celebrates goal against Mozambique, yesterday Manchester United winger Amad Diallo scored as Ivory Coast began their Africa Cup of Nations title defence with a 1-0 victory over Mozambique in Marrakesh yesterday. Diallo struck after 49 minutes of a Group F match the three-time champions dominated against op...
•Senegal players celebrate goal South Africa, Ivory Coast and Senegal all won convincingly yesterday to fill the last three automatic places reserved for Africa at the 2026 World Cup. Senegal were the most impressive winners, hammering Mauritania 4-0, while Ivory Coast beat Kenya 3-0 and South Africa were also 3-0 winners, against Rwanda, repo...
•Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara Ivory Coast’s government today said it was banning meetings and rallies protesting against the barring of leading critics of President Alassane Ouattara from the October 25 presidential vote. Ex-leader Laurent Gbagbo, a longtime rival of Ouattara, and Tidjane Thiam, who heads the west African co...
•President Emmanuel Macron (France) and President Alassane Ouattara (Ivory Coast) France’s parliament today approved returning to Ivory Coast a “talking drum” that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest green light to the repatriation of colonial spoils. The Djidji Ayokwe drum is a communication tool more than three m...
•A general view of supporters of Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in the Ebimpe Olympic Stadium Four people died in a stampede outside a large Ivory Coast ruling party rally at a stadium, a senior party official told reporters yesterday. Approximately 60,000 people attended Sunday’s rally of the Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Pea...
•NAPTIP boss, Binta Adamu-Bello The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has announced the return of 78 Nigerian girls trafficked to Ivory Coast. The victims arrived in Lagos on Saturday night via an Air Peace flight, reports Daily Independent. In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, NAPTIP’s Director-Gen...
•Air Peace chairman, Allen Onyema Chairman of the Air Peace Group, Allen Onyema, has promised to bring back underage girls trafficked to the Ivory Coast free of charge. In a statement on the company’s X handle, Onyema called for collective efforts to discourage trafficking, emphasising its inhumane and ungodly nature. He expressed deep concern...
France has handed over its only military base in Ivory Coast to local authorities, marking an end to decades of French presence at the site. The French and Ivorian defence ministers signed a document to confirm the return today, shortly after the Ivorian flag was raised in the base’s parade ground, reports AFP. Ivorian Defence […]
•French troops French troops will soon begin departing from Ivory Coast, the West African country’s President Alassane Ouattara announced in his New Year address. “We have decided on a coordinated and organised withdrawal of French troops,” said Ouattara in the televised speech. The departure will begin in January, according to the president, ...
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