Disaster arrived with the New Year in the Ivory Coast, when a crowd of thousands stampeded after a fireworks show in the country’s commercial district. As the crowd forced its way out of the Felix Houphounet Boigny Stadium, 61 people were killed by the stampede, and dozens more were injured according to reports from the [...]
Ivory Coast Shuts Border with Ghana Following Deadly Attacks
September 23, 2012 | Posted by
An attack on an army checkpoint and two police stations has led to the closure of the border between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast Defense Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said that the attacks against the country’s security forces left eight people dead, including five of the attacking gunmen. Ivory Coast authorities believe the [...]
Reports: Fighting Breaks Out Near Liberia’s Border With Cote d’Ivoire
August 14, 2012 | Posted by
Heavy Gun battle has erupted in west Africa between Ivorian government forces and the country’s rebels near the border with Liberia in Grand Gedeh County. The fighting started Monday around the western town of Touloupleu inside Ivory Coast between the two groups. Fleeing refugees entering Liberia told the New Dawn in Grand Gedeh the attackers [...]
Israel launches Inhumane African Migrant Deportation Drive
June 17, 2012 | Posted by
In this photo, AFP captures a naked African female migrant described as a prostitute in a series of raids by Israel’s immigration police aimed at rounding up and deporting illegal African immigrants. Israel launched a high-profile deportation drive against African migrants on Sunday with an airlift of South Sudanese whose government said they would be [...]
Ivory Coast Authorities Foil Coup Planned By Laurent Gbagbo Supporters
June 13, 2012 | Posted by
The authorities in Ivory Coast say they have foiled a plot to overthrow the government organized by supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo. The interior minister said arrests had been made and documents seized. He said the coup plotters were linked to Liberian mercenaries and Ivorian militias who were accused of killing seven UN peacekeepers [...]
African Child Policy Forum: African Adoption Should Be Discouraged ‘At All Costs’
May 30, 2012 | Posted by
The number of children from Africa being adopted by foreign nationals from other continents has risen dramatically, a report has said. In the past eight years, international adoptions increased by almost 400%, the African Child Policy Forum has found. “Africa is becoming the new frontier for inter-country adoption,” the Addis Ababa-based group said. But many [...]
