Category: Ivory Coast

11 Convicted Over Deadly Extremist Attack in Ivory Coast

December 28, 2022
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—Eleven people were sentenced to life in prison in Ivory Coast on Wednesday after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach nearly seven years ago. The killings in the Grand-Bassam resort area by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were…

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At Least 6 Die as Ivory Coast Apartment Block Collapses

March 8, 2022
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—At least six people, including two children, died when an apartment block collapsed in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital of Abidjan overnight, the fire brigade said on Monday. Rescuers used torches to search through the mounds of broken concrete and carried out 36 people alive, officials said. One firefighter cradled a baby in the…

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Ivory Coast Military Helicopter Crashes, Killing 5 on Board

September 10, 2021
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ABIDJAN—A military helicopter crashed in northern Ivory Coast while on a reconnaissance mission near the border with Burkina Faso, killing all five crew members, the defense ministry said on Friday. An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the crash, the ministry said in a statement. Ivory Coast’s borderlands with Burkina Faso have…

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Ivory Coast Detects First Ebola Case in 25 Years

August 15, 2021
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ABIDJAN—Ivory Coast has declared a first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in 25 years, the health minister and the World Health Organization (WHO) said separately on Saturday. Health Minister Pierre Dimba said on national television that it was an isolated case of an 18-year-old girl who travelled from neighboring Guinea. The World Health Organization…

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