Four UN soldiers were killed in an explosion in Mali. A landmine or roadside bomb probably exploded near their vehicle. Another four passengers were seriously injured, reports the UN mission in the West African country.
Eudoxie Yao from Ivory Coast has such a big backside that she disrupts traffic in her hometown of Abidjan. Thanks to her 'good genes' she is seen as the African answer to Kim Kardashian.
The authorities in Côte d'Ivoire have seized 600 pounds of elephants' tusks. They had an estimated value of more than 360,000 euros.
In an attack on military personnel of a United Nations peace mission in the northeast of the Congo, at least fourteen casualties and more than forty wounded were killed. The victims worked for the Monusco, the UN Stabilization Mission for Congo. The nationality of the victims is still unknown.
In Ivory Coast, a summit between the African Union and the European Union starts Wednesday. Three ministers from the Cabinet are present at the summit on Wednesday and Thursday: Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Minister Halbe Zijlstra of Foreign Affairs and Sigrid Kaag for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.
On the coast of the West African country Côte d'Ivoire, a plane was sown in the sea on Saturday. The unit had just left the airport in Abidjan. According to the first messages, the plane would have come to a storm.
In the two largest cities of Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan and Bouaké, violent firefights broke out Monday, witnesses reported. It involved an army campaign aimed at ending a rewarding soldier's four-day misery for the payment of premiums.
The Côte d'Ivoire army is in Bouaké doing an operation to restore the 'order' after three days of mice. That said the army's army, General Sekou Touré, said on Sunday. The turmoil arose because of the payment of bonuses.
Five ex-soldiers and a former police chief in Ivory Coast sentenced to prison for kidnapping, torture and murder of four foreigners. The victims were abducted during the civil war in 2011 from a hotel in Abidjan.
Simone Gbagbo, the former first lady of Ivory Coast, was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war in 2011, approximately 3,000 people living cost. The judge found no evidence the indictment. This was announced by state television Tuesday.
Two bodies found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are probably two kidnapped employees of the United Nations. This was announced by the father of one of the two missing Tuesday.
The President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara has said that agreement has been reached with disgruntled soldiers in his country. This brings an end to a two-day uprising in the West African country.
In the town of Man in Côte d'Ivoire since Saturday morning regularly hear gunfire. Thus this western city is the sixth place in the African country where it is agitated since Friday. The problems are caused by former soldiers. Allegedly demanding money from the government.
