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Chelsea have added CSKA Moscow striker Seydou Doumbia to their list of targets. The Ivory Coast star, 24, is valued at around £26million. Chelsea have an extensive list but fear competition from Manchester City.

A minister in Ivory Coast is sacked over his alleged role in the disappearance of millions of dollars meant for the victims of a toxic waste dumping scandal.

Thousands pack relay route in southwest England, hoping to get a glimpse of the Ivory Coast striker

The Ivory Coast forward is confident the Spaniard will step up after announcing that he will be leaving Stamford Bridge in the summer following the conclusion of his contract

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Three days after he lifted Chelsea to its first ever Champions League title, Didier Drogba announced he is leaving the Blues after eight years in London. For all the sublime finishes he produced during that run, the 34-year-old Ivory Coast international will be most remembered for his last kick — the penalty that sealed Chelsea’s first European championship in a thrilling victory over Bayern M...

Ivory Coast striker will leave the European Champions in June amid rumours he is bound for China.

Didier Drogba has kicked his last ball for Chelsea after the Ivory Coast striker confirmed he will leave the club this summer.

IVORY COAST striker is free agent in the summer and can leave Stamford Bridge

Scientists studied chimp communities in the Ivory Coast, Africa, and observed their use of stone and wooden tools as the different groups interacted.

It took a mother's last wish, and a man to make it happen, but Ivory Coast now has it's first all-women orchestra in what is hailed as a little "revolution" in this fiercely patriarchal society.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to maintain sanctions on Ivory Coast for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on importing rough diamonds from the West African nation....

Husband and wife thrive amid Ivory Coast's conflicts

Like many of his artist peers in Africa, Salif Diabagaté, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, persists despite obstacles — like a recent civil war.

DAKAR  - West African leaders on Monday hit Mali’s junta with a complete embargo, closing borders to trade and freezing access to the country’s bank account, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also announced its military force was being placed on immediate standby and they would decide this week how it would be ...

IVORY Coast's president has appointed a new prime minister.

OSSEIKRO, Ghana (Reuters) - In the dusty town of Osseikro just inside Ghana's border with Ivory Coast, the only billboard for miles welcomes visitors with the order: "Stop Smuggling Cocoa".

During the past year, the U.N. has launched independent investigations into possible war crimes in Ivory Coast, Libya and Syria. But in Sri Lanka, where as many as 40,000 civilians were killed in the final phases of the country's civil war, the U.N. has been unable to muster support for an independent investigation into atrocities. So why has Sri Lanka been different? The scale of killi...

Gold miner seeks to double dividend on back of a surge in EPS, despite teething problems in Ivory Coast and adverse weather affecting operations

Ivory Coast's shift to selling next season's cocoa crop in advance has rattled global markets for the chocolate ingredient, keeping a lid on prices just as the market was recovering from three-year lows.

Zambia and Ivory Coast are through to the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations after both teams completed comfortable 3-0 victories against Sudan and Equatorial Guinea respectively on Saturday.

Ivory Coast can fulfil their potential and finally win another African Nations Cup according to Newcaslte midfielder Cheick Tiote.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is praising the administration of Ivory Coast's president for seeking justice and accountability for crimes committed in the months after the disputed 2010 election.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- After an intense year of diplomacy sparked by revolution and repression across the Arab world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking stock this week of an entirely separate democratic advance a half-continent away in West Africa....

ABIDJAN (AFP) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara celebrated Friday as he and his allies secured a vice-like grip on parliament after an election boycotted by followers of his toppled rival Laurent Gbagbo.After final results were announced in the early hours by the independent electoral commission, Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) said Ouattara was the head of an illegitimate regime a...

Voting closed in Ivory Coast in the first elections since last year's presidential poll that ended in violence and the deaths of at least 3,000 people. Reports suggested the parliamentary vote was generally peaceful, but an opposition boycott reduced turnout.

Ivorians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election which is expected to see the ruling coalition of President Alassane Ouattara strengthen its rule in the world's top cocoa producing nation.

AMSTERDAM - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo appeared at the International Criminal Court yesterday to face charges of crimes against humanity. He is the first former head of state expected to be tried by the court since its inception in 2002.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo appeared at the International Criminal Court on Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity, the first former head of state expected to be tried by the court since its inception in 2002. Gbagbo, 66, was arrested and flown from Ivory… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Gbagbo was calm and smiled at supporters in the public gallery as the 25-minute hearing opened in The Hague, Netherlands.

Laurent Gbagbo faces charges that he ordered troops to attack civilians in a failed bid to cling to power

Former Ivory Coast president charged by international criminal court for attacks on civilians in post-election chaos last yearThe international criminal court has charged former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts, crimes allegedly committed as his backers fought to keep him in power last year.Gbagbo is the first former head of state taken into c...

A plane carrying former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, facing an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, arrived at Rotterdam airport this morning.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for ousted Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, his France-based lawyer today.

I recently saw a list that surprised me. It was a record of emergencies that Save the Children has responded to so far in 2011....

Global food giant Nestle says it has taken a major step to end child labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast that supply its factories.

An appeal has begun against a million-euro fine on multinational oil trader Trafigura for the illegal export of toxic waste. It was dumped in Ivory Coast after a stopover in the Netherlands.

Top-ranked African team, Ivory Coast defend a perfect record this year when they confront South Africa for the Nelson Mandela Challenge.

QPR 2 Manchester City 3:MICAH RICHARDS was droll when asked what Manchester City would do when Yaya Toure is with Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea early next year. “We’ll just go and buy someone else,” he said casually of the man who had notched the winner against Queens Park Rangers. The full back was parodying the idea that a club of such means has the a...

The big tech/politics story of this week is the victory of the Guardian - abetted by hordes of Twitter activists - over Trafigura, an energy company - abetted by hordes of lawyers (Trafigura has allegedly been responsible for dumping toxic waste in the Ivory Coast). Confusion over the exact stipulations of a court injunction issued in the case prevented the Guardian from reporting...