Just days before the kick-off, the teams participating in the FIFA U17 World Cup are beginning to unveil their official squad ...

Burkina Faso has said it considers the death of a Burkinabé activist in custody in Ivory Coast to be an "assassination". Alain Traoré, commonly known as Alino Faso, had been arrested six months ago in ...

Emmanuel knows only too well the allure of illegal gold prospecting in the protected Comoe National Park for the many young ...

Tensions are mounting over President Ouattara’s decision to run for a fourth term and a ban on opposition candidates.

Ivory Coast's army chief encouraged a coup leader in neighbouring Burkina Faso during his failed bid to seize power last year, according to a recording of a conversation in the hands of Burkina Faso ...

Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara was re-elected in a landslide victory on Monday for a fourth presidential term, in a vote ...

According to the country's Security Minister Mahamadou Sana, these people recently paid terrorist groups to attack the presidential palace of Koulouba RABAT, September 24. /TASS/. A large-scale plot ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Soldiers from Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso conducted their first joint operation against jihadists active near their shared border, killing eight suspected militants and arresting ...

Peaceful protests in Ivory Coast provincial towns. BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) -- Thousands of people took to the streets in Ivory Coast's provincial towns on Wednesday amid a p ...

Today everyone agrees that the park is well-guarded, while artisanal gold mining is officially prohibited. Those caught by the park’s rangers risk up to two years in jail and a hefty fine. Yet the ...