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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Looters and desperate residents scrambling to find water occupied the otherwise deserted streets of Abidjan on Thursday after a week of fighting for control of Ivory Coast's ...
Fighting with some killings "and still quite a lot of looting" is being reported in Abidjan, UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy told reporters. He said both followers of Gbagbo and president Alassane ...
Eyewitness: Fear on Abidjan streets. Troops have frequently been on the streets. Jenine de Giovanni, who reports for the Times newspaper, was caught up in the shooting which erupted in Ivory Coast's ...
Street names in Ivory Coast's economic capital have taken on a decidedly more local flavour over the past few weeks, ... While the process of renaming streets in Abidjan began in 2021, ...
A man hiding in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan from fighting between rival presidential claimants tells the BBC that bodies litter the streets and pro-Ouattara forces are patrolling.
One step at a time, Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan is seeking a return to normal life after becoming the focus of a pitched battle between rivals for the Ivorian presidency. FRANCE 24 ...
ABIDJAN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Residents of the Yopougon, the most populous district in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan, took to the streets on Saturday to clean clogged storm drains and ...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Tens of thousands of angry government loyalists raced down the skyscraper-lined highways of Abidjan on Wednesday, waving sticks and shouting their rage at rebels advancing ...
The popular music style from Ivory Coast has become such a phenomenon that it is now a subject for academic research.
New York - Ivory Coast's main city remains "dangerous" with looting and killings despite the detention of strongman Laurent Gbagbo and a major humanitarian operation is needed for the population, UN ...