Côte d'Ivoire

Ivory Coast exported 2,767 tonnes (46,117 60-kg bags) of green coffee in March 2018, up sharply from 1,967 in the same month last year and also above 2,098 tonnes in February, provisional port data showed. Already a subscriber? Please sign in below to continue reading. Sign In. Thanks, we've sent a ...

Ivory Coast exported 2,767 tonnes (46,117 60-kg bags) of green coffee in March 2018, up sharply from 1,967 in the same month last year and also above 2,098 tonnes in February, provisional port data showed. This brought total exports in the first three mon.

United Nations, United States | AFP | Ivory Coast will send 450 troops to the Central African Republic to serve as UN peacekeepers in one of the most demanding missions, the foreign minister said Thursday. The announcement from Ivorian Foreign Minister Marcel Amon-Tanoh came after Gabon last month ...

BOUAKE (Ivory Coast) • Earlier this year, Cape Town grabbed the world's headlines as it careered towards a water armageddon. Crippled by a three-year-long drought, the South African city braced itself for a complete shutdown of domestic water supplies. In the event, Cape Town dodged the immediate ...

Boosting cocoa processing in Ivory Coast is central to improving the sustainability of the country's cocoa sector, the top grower's trade minister Souleymane Diarrassouba said. Increasing the volume of cocoa that is processed locally was a necessary step to help protect producing countries from volatility on ...

But in Ivory Coast, analysts have found that phone traffic increases by about 10 percent in the four days leading up to outbreaks of small-scale violence. Previous research suggested that widespread connectivity leads to greater unrest, but it seems that in Ivory Coast — with its 92 percent mobile penetration ...

BERLIN - Boosting cocoa processing in Ivory Coast is central to improving the sustainability of the country's cocoa sector, the top grower's trade minister Souleymane Diarrassouba said. Increasing the volume of cocoa that is processed locally was a necessary step to help protect producing countries from ...

Koumassi-Sicogi, the southern district of Abidjan where Manchester United star Eric Bailly grew up, is known locally as "The Venice of Abidjan." The nickname is not a compliment. Situated on the island of Petit Bassam and separated from the centre of Abidjan by a strait of the Ebrie Lagoon, Koumassi-Sicogi is a bustling, ...

... fish the traditional way cause cancer? Ivory Coast is asking people to use modern methods to produce the smoked fish beloved by so many. 12 Apr 2018 ... to cause cancer. In Ivory Coast, people are now being encouraged to use more modern and healthier methods. Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports.

ABIDJAN, March 21 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's mid-crop cocoa output is expected to drop 23 percent this season due to insufficient rain and poorly kept fields, a senior source at the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) said on Wednesday. The lack of rain from November to March in most production areas ...

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure who reversed an earlier decision to retire from international football pulled out of the Ivory Coast squad for their friendly matches against Togo and Moldova slated for this Sunday and Tuesday respectively. Toure was due to make his international return after reversing ...

ABIDJAN - Yaya Toure has pulled out of two friendly internationals over the next week for “family reasons”, officials said on Thursday, putting his long-awaited Ivory Coast comeback on hold. Toure, who turns 35 in May, was named last week in a 24-man squad for matches in France against Togo and ...

Security forces in Abidjan ,Cote D'Ivoire on Thursday averted a planned demonstration by the coalition of opposition parties. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. According to one of its spokespersons , the opposition platform ''Together for Democracy and Sovereignty'' (EDS) called for a protest ...

Abidjan - Riot police in Ivory Coast on Thursday arrested protesters and fired teargas to prevent an opposition demonstration from going ahead, AFP journalists said. The opposition coalition Together for Democracy and Sovereignty (EDS) called the march to protest against the electoral commission which it ...

Abidjan - The infant mortality rate in Ivory Coast has halved in 20 years, the planning and development minister said on Monday, pointing to better and more accessible health care. Niale Kaba said the probability of an infant dying before turning one had dropped from 112 for every 1 000 births in 1998 to 60 ...

ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast's consumer prices fell 0.6 percent year-on-year in February, down from 0.2 percent inflation in January, data from the National Statistics Institute showed on Monday. Food and soft drink prices in the world's top cocoa producer dropped 0.6 percent, while housing and utilities prices fell ...

In January Thierry Tanoh, the minister of oil, energy and renewable energy development, announced that work on the new units at Ciprel and Azito's combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants would begin this year. The three IPPs are collectively responsible for the bulk of Ivory Coast's thermal energy ...

WEST African country, Ivory Coast, replaced its industry and mines minister, Jean-Claude Brou with trade minister, Souleymane Diarrassouba, who will run the ministry on an interim basis, said Reuters in a report. Brou served as industry minister since 2012 and added the mining portfolio the following year, ...

AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday received a letter from Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on the development of bilateral ties and increase of coordination, which was delivered by visiting Ivory Coast Foreign Minister Marcel Amon Tanoh during his meeting with Foreign Minister ...

If deforestation continues unabated, Ivory Coast risks losing all its forest cover by 2034, environmental campaigners say. The country's rapidly disappearing forests are home to Western chimpanzees, classified as critically endangered since 2016, forest elephants, and the rare pygmy hippopotamus.

Abidjan - The West African state of Ivory Coast on Monday said it was earmarking $7.07bn in infrastructure spending over the next five years, especially in transport. The announcement was made by the minister for economic infrastructure, Amede Koffi Kouakou, at ceremonies to launch a business fair to be ...