World & Nation
Tensions escalate between Niger’s new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered troops deployed to restore democracy there.
Aug. 11, 2023
Entertainment & Arts
Architecture criticism is not dead yet. The New York Review of Architecture turns its eye to L.A. — from cemetery design to the rising Lucas Museum.
March 2, 2024
The bittersweet scent of raw cocoa awaiting shipment overseas still permeates the huge lagoon-side port district here, a reminder that this is the commodity that created Africa’s most stunning economic success story.
Nov. 6, 1990
Many had hoped that Guinea’s landmark 2010 election would finally give the country a democratic leader after decades of corrupt dictatorship.
Sept. 7, 2021
African and Western leaders have condemned the junta that forced Mali’s president from power, warning the coup was a deep setback that could threaten the battle against Islamic extremism across the Sahel region, where thousands have been killed by jihadists
Aug. 20, 2020
Western officials say violence against civilians in Mali has risen in the year since hundreds of Russian mercenaries have started working alongside the West African country’s armed forces to stem a decadelong insurgency by Islamic extremists
Jan. 14, 2023
Delivering a stinging defeat to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, judges on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minister Charles Ble Goude of responsibility for crimes committed following disputed elections in 2010, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case.
Jan. 15, 2019
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo unleashed a wave of deadly violence targeting political opponents in a doomed attempt to cling to power after losing a 2010 election runoff, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said Thursday as the court’s landmark first trial of a former head of state got underway.
Jan. 28, 2016
California
A second Special Olympics athlete from Ivory Coast was reported missing on Tuesday, hours before he was scheduled to fly out of Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.
Aug. 4, 2015
Ivory Coast capital seized by president-elect’s forces
March 31, 2011