Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa producer and one of West Africa's leading economic powers, is battling a 4-month-old uprising by rebels who want President Laurent Gbagbo out, blaming him in ...

The four largest opposition parties yesterday withdrew support for the Ivory Coast's elections, planned to be held in October. Recent setbacks threaten a return to civil war, which has caused ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—Fresh violence around this commercial capital has renewed the prospect of civil war, as African Union mediators continued to seek an end to a deadly impasse between two ...

Heavy fighting between two men who both claim the presidency in the Ivory Coast has brought the country to the brink of civil war. Incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo was declared to have lost ...

After a day of clashes, some of the bloodiest to hit Ivory Coast in years, this divided corner of Africa where two rivals claim to be president stands at a precarious crossroads between war and ...

JOHANNESBURG—Five years after he was toppled in a brief civil war, the former president of Ivory Coast on Thursday became the first ex-head of state to go on trial at the International Criminal ...

Forest rangers in olive-green fatigues snap to attention, ready for their commander's orders. Their presence gives a military feel to a campaign to help Ivory Coast regain the emerald forests it ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A top ally of Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader said Friday that the country is already in a "civil war situation," and urged the incumbent leader who refuses ...

Ivory Coast's hosting of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations will further accelerate the country's impressive rebound since its civil war ended in 2011, the Ivorian government hopes.

As Laurent Gbagbo—the first former head of state to be tried by the International Criminal Court—awaits his fate in The Hague, Ivory Coast is still violently divided under his longtime nemesis ...