Touting himself as the prime mover behind the transformation of Côte d'Ivoire's economy over 14 years in office, incumbent ...

As Ivorians head to the polls on Saturday, with their 83-year-old incumbent president seeking a fourth term, young people in ...

Unlike her ex-husband Laurent Gbagbo, who served as president from 2000 to 2010 and is barred from running, Simone Gbagbo is ...

Online disinformation from at home and abroad is ringing alarm bells as Côte d’Ivoire prepares to vote in a presidential ...

Confronted with runaway population growth, Côte d’Ivoire must adapt its economy without delay. How can the country face one ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In March of this year, The Economist magazine ran a story headlined “The Success ...

Nigeria and hosts Côte d’Ivoire clash in one of the most anticipated matches of the 34th Africa Cup of Nations today , in a 60,000-capacity stadium that organisers say will be filled to the brim just ...

On 12 June the two countries, which together produce about 65% of the world’s cocoa, agreed a price floor of $2,600 per tonne of cocoa produced. Then in August, Ghana said that it will increase cocoa ...

The former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Côte d'Ivoire for the award of the Félix Houphouet-Boigny/UNESCO prize enabled a meeting between three key figures of the Ivorian political stage ...

In February 2021, Côte d’Ivoire’s efforts to vaccinate its population in order to save lives and stem the spread of the coronavirus were being stymied by a wave of misinformation and a low level of ...

The cocoa cooperative system in Côte d'Ivoire works as a conduit for farmers. Instead of each farmer negotiating directly with a buyer, cooperatives use an intermediary, who represents the farmers in ...

In the week and a half since Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo declared himself the winner of a national election that domestic and international observers say he lost, the West African nation ...