Tensions are rising in the country ahead of October polls, with many wary of a repeat of election violence seen in 2011.

Thiam was the first Ivorian student to land a place at Paris’s prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in 1982, from where he was launched to top-flight firms like consulting giant McKinsey.

This is why African countries—most of which export predominantly unprocessed commodities—are studying the parable of the Ivorian cashew. Fifteen years ago Ivory Coast, the world’s largest ...

After debuting at 21 years old, Didier Drogba played a key role to stop a civil war in his country and starred in one of the greatest Champions League finals for Chelsea.

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than previously thought.

Ivory Coast’s success is not unqualified. Entrepreneurs grouse about a lack of skills among the young, not surprising since civil war destroyed most schools.

An archaeology breakthrough has discovered that humans inhabited rainforests around 150,000 years ago, a staggering 80,000 years earlier than previously believed.This revelation comes from an ...

The tools were subsequently lost during the Second Ivorian Civil War in 2011; and at the time, it was not possible to precisely date the tools nor determine the ecology of the region at the time ...

The war lasted for two years and six months. On the other hand, the first Ivorian civil war did not happen until 42 years after its independence.

After its civil war ended in 2011, Ivory Coast has now spent at least $1 billion on hosting the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

During the First Ivorian Civil War, the country was divided between a government-held Christian south and northern regions under the control of Muslim rebels.