Ivorian call for French to return
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The Ivorian leader calls for the French business community to return, saying their "mutual interests" are at stake.
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French soldiers deployed in Ivory Coast  to help evacuate expatriates from violent mob rioting will  start pulling back from some positions in the main city Abidjan  this week, the Ivorian army said on Sunday.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel chief wants President Laurent Gbagbo to be charged with war crimes as the West African country&#39;s leader called on thousands of foreigners who fled mob violence to return.
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Visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki Saturday called on Ivorian lawmakers to pass a constitutional change so that the country could regain its stability and prosperity.
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Ivory Coast's rebel New Forces are demanding that President Laurent Gbagbo step down to allow stability to return to the divided west African state, in the throes of a new crisis after government forces ...
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Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo  appealed for calm on Sunday and urged protesters to return home  after two days of anti-French mob violence.
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French citizens queued at Ivory Coast's  main airport on Wednesday to flee their former West African  colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day  in support of President Laurent Gbagbo.
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ABIDJAN: An exodus from Ivory Coast began yesterday with a first planeload of French nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled to escape a week of deadly violence, amid new tensions that sent thousands into Abidjan&#39;s streets.
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More French citizens prepared to quit  their former colony Ivory Coast on Thursday as African leaders  strived to stem the chaotic violence in the country which  threatens to plunge West Africa into turmoil.
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Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo appealed for calm on Sunday and urged protesters to return home after two days of anti-French mob violence.
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Francophone heads of state are urging Ivory Coast&#39;s warring parties to renounce violence and strictly abide by a French-brokered peace accord meant to return stability to the divided nation.
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Leaders at a summit in Burkina Faso of mostly French-speaking nations have condemned authorities in divided Ivory Coast for resuming hostilities in the rebel-held north earlier this month.
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President Laurent Gbagbo has called on the United Nations to impose sanctions on neighbouring countries involved in Ivory Coast&#39;s two year conflict.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- The French Olympic team is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try to win back its three-day event Olympic gold medal in Athens.
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French President Jacques Chirac has urged all sides in Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis to resume talks as he opened a summit of French-speaking countries snubbed by the Ivorian delegation.
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Protesters in Ivory Coast massed to  support President Laurent Gbagbo for a fifth day on Wednesday  as France prepared to airlift citizens from its former West  African colony, once a model of post-independence prosperity.
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THE 10th summit of French-speaking countries which opens tomorrow is supposed to focus on sustainable development but the resurgent crisis in Ivory Coast, once Francophone west Africa's brightest light, is ...