Ivory Coast

The United Methodist Church lost over a million members in one fell swoop last week, with a large West African conference voting to leave the organization over its acceptance of LGBT clergy and marriages.

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said.

German officials seized cooked bats and nearly a ton of unrefrigerated fish after police stopped a van near the border.

Angela Merkel has been awarded a peace prize for her open borders approach to the European migrant crisis in 2015.

French police arrested a 42-year-old African migrant in Nogaro this week following allegations he has raped and sexually and physically abused 28 children, including two infants, in his home since 2017.

Italian police took a 45-year-old African migrant into custody after trying to sexually harass a nine-year-old girl and attacking her uncle with a broken bottle.

(AFP) — Three men went on trial in Paris on Monday over the bombing of a French military camp in Ivory Coast in 2004, which killed nine soldiers and sparked furious reprisals by the French, causing a deep rift in Franco-Ivorian relations.

Experts warn that coronavirus-related school closures in West Africa during the local cocoa harvest season could cause a spike in child labor in Ivory Coast and Ghana, Reuters reported on Thursday.

PAU, France (AP) – France is preparing its military to better target Islamic extremists in a West African region that has seen a surge of deadly violence. But first, French President Emmanuel Macron is asking African heads of state to answer a key question: “Do you want us there?”

(AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Ivory Coast on Friday to celebrate Christmas with French troops, saying Paris would work to give “new force” to the regional fight against Islamist militants.

The lobbying firm managed by Mississippi Democrat Senate candidate Mike Espy received a second payment of $350,000 from a trade organization controlled by African despot Lauren Gbagbo.

A 16-year-old Ivorian who arrived in France as an unaccompanied minor has been arrested on suspicion of committing a series of violent rapes after his DNA was identified at the scene.

Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin took a call from a man going by the name “Michael in Virginia,” who claimed to be an FBI operative that was involved in the discovery of a Hezbollah drug trafficking and money laundering operation.

The migrant heaved a large glass bottle at police and rushed at them after stabbing a bus driver in the chest three times.

Contents: Mediterranean migrant traffic to Italy and Greece continues, despite cold weather; Europeans wonder if Turkey will reopen the refugee floodgates

France will increase the number of its troops in Ivory Coast, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday on a trip to the African nation which hosts a regional base for French forces. “This summer the French forces in Ivory

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s brutal attack on beach hotels in the Grand Bassam town of the Ivory Coast, in which at least 16 people were killed.

Contents: Yet another terrorist bombing in Ankara Turkey kills 34; AQIM takes credit for armed terror attack on Ivory Coast beach resort

The jihadist terrorists who open-fired on tourists at a beach resort in Côte d’Ivoire Sunday forced victims to shout out “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) before shooting them, according to eyewitnesses. The six gunmen, now identified as members of the

Grand-Bassam (Ivory Coast) (AFP) – Heavily armed gunmen opened fire Sunday at a hotel in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand-Bassam which is popular with Westerners, witnesses told AFP.