FILE- Former Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bédié attends a party rally in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, on Sept. 12, 2020. A career diplomat and politician, Bedie, who was head of state in the ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Former Ivory Coast president Henri Konan Bédié died Tuesday night at the age of 89, according to a communiqué from his party. State media reported that he was rushed ...

Former Ivory Coast president Henri Konan Bédié died Tuesday night at the age of 89, according to a communiqué from his party. State media reported that he was rushed from his hometown of ...

Hatred between ethnic groups in western Ivory Coast continues to have a devastating impact on the local economy, nearly a year and a half after a military rebellion threw the country into crisis. The ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Oct. 28 -- In recent years, Laurent Gbagbo--a history professor and, for two decades, this country's gadfly opposition politician--has lacked money to finish building a ...

“Ivory Coast is one of the few countries that still resist the terrorist threat in the Sahel,” said a U.N ... Different ethnic groups lived next to each other but were divided by conflicts ...

Henri Konan Bédié, a former president of Ivory Coast who led the West African nation for six years, stoking xenophobia and ethnic tensions before being deposed in a military coup in 1999, died ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former Ivory Coast president Henri Konan Bédié has died Tuesday night at the age of 89, according to a communiqué from his party.

FILE- Former Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bédié attends a party rally in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, on Sept. 12, 2020. A career diplomat and politician, Bedie, who was head of state in the ...