The Prime minister of Mali’s caretaker government, Cheick Modibo Diarra, arrived in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan on Saturday for talks with Ivorian president and head of the West African ECOWAS bloc, Alassane Ouattara, on the Malian crisis.
From rebel, to war lord, to president, to convicted criminal - Charles Taylor becomes the first former African head of state to be found guilty by an international criminal court. Next, in Ivory Coast, President Alassane Ouattara visits the town of Duékoué, left badly affected by last year's fighting. Finally, South Sudan steps onto the international economic stage.
The economy has rebounded and Laurent Gbagbo is at the International Criminal Court. But now comes the hard task of punishing the guilty among the winners and reconciling a nation where many are still too scared to go home.
The economy has rebounded and Laurent Gbagbo is at the International Criminal Court. But now comes the hard task of punishing the guilty among the winners and reconciling a nation where many are still too scared to go home.
Several hundred thousand Ivorians fled post-election violence a year ago. More than 150,000 refugees are thought to remain outside the country, as well as some 80,000 internally displaced people according to UN figures, the majority of whom are thought to have been pro-Gbagbo supporters. Many are asking for help from the government, which has been slow to respond. Our correspondent Maureen Grisot went to meet those who have been living for nearly a year in tents on the outskirts of Abidjan.
Investigators from the International Criminal Court went to Duékoué, a town in the west of the Ivory Coast, where hundreds were brutally killed in the post-election violence that rocked the country in 2011. The team is set to submit a report to the court to decide whether to dig the ground in search of mass graves.
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara will also serve as defence minister, his office announced Tuesday, as former justice minister and opposition member Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio (pictured) was appointed prime minister.
In an expected move, Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro submitted his resignation to President Alassane Ouattara on Thursday, saying his election as a member of parliament meant he could "no longer exercise the powers of the executive branch".
After three weeks of heavy shelling from the army, Syrian tanks entered the Baba Amr district of Homs on Thursday. Is the regime launching a final offensive on the rebels?
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara was chosen to serve as the next head of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, at a summit on Friday in the Nigerian capital of Abuja.
