Ivory Coast
24/12/2012 / IVORY COAST
Fulani herders and Malinke farmers clash in northern Ivory Coast
In the city of Kong, in northern Ivory Coast, tensions are running high between Fulani herders and Malinke farmers. On the night of December 11 to 12, skirmishes led to beatings and the burning of homes, as our Observer's photos show. Read more...
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14/12/2012 / WORLD
Five years of the Observers: Thank you everybody!
Five years! Exactly five years ago today, the Observers was launched for the very first time. We would like to celebrate this with you as we reflect on the path we’ve travelled together, and look forward to some of our new projects. Read more...
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03/12/2012 / IVORY COAST
How a France 24 journalist became a scam artist - without knowing it
Last Friday, I received a phone call at work from a man who asked me right off the bat, "Are you the person who is sending me threats by email?" He then added: "This is about that video of me naked." I had no idea what he was talking about. So I asked this man some more questions, and learned his strange story. Read more...
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30/11/2012 / IVORY COAST
High rewards, but high risk: Illegal gold mining in Ivory Coast
A rockslide killed at least seven people last week in an illegal gold mine in a remote region of Ivory Coast. In this mine, Ivorian and foreign workers alike risk their lives every day to scrounge up a couple grams of the precious metal. Read more...
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24/09/2012 / IVORY COAST - OUR OBSERVERS BALANCE THEIR BOOKS
“I used savings to bail out my hotel”
For the third part of our series “Our Observers Balance Their Books”, we talked to Younousse Lamine Sakho, who has been a hotel manager in Abidjan since 1998. With a monthly salary of €533, he has to be extremely careful with his spending to stay afloat at the end of the month. He is calling for political action to save the Ivorian hotel industry. Read more...
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21/09/2012 / Ivory Coast
Amputee Ivorian war veteran fights for compensation
It’s been a year and a half since Ivory Coast’s post-election crisis ended, but many former soldiers are still waiting for the government to compensate them for the injuries incurred during the conflict. Our Observer, who served in the armed forces that supported now-President Alassane Ouattara, describes how the conflict has turned his life upside down. Read more...
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21/08/2012 / IVORY COAST
An Ivorian pro-opposition journalist: “We have to work in secrecy”
Very early on Sunday morning, several hours after an attack on the headquarters of the former ruling party, the offices of a newspaper aligned with former president Laurent Gbagbo were vandalized. Pro-Gbagbo journalists had feared such an attack since the post-election crisis, to such an extent that they had completely changed the way they work. Read more…
26/07/2012 / IVORY COAST
An Ivorian immigrant recounts his return from Israel: “I left Tel Aviv before I was forced out"
First it was illegal South Sudanese immigrants, now it’s illegal Ivorian immigrants who are facing the threat of deportation from Israel. As part of the government’s plan to eventually repatriate all illegal African immigrants, the Minister of the Interior announced on June 28 that Ivorians living unlawfully in Israel had just a little over two weeks to leave the country. Our Observer, an Ivorian immigrant, told us about his return from Tel Aviv to Abidjan. Read more...
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17/04/2012 / IVORY COAST
Fears rise over Ivory Coast’s ‘game of death’ phenomenon
In Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, the bôrô d’enjaillement (which roughly translates to “bag of enjoyment”) is an act that consists of mounting a moving a bus and dancing, flipping and jumping on its roof as it hurtles along its route. Read more…
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10/01/2012 / IVORY COAST
First-ever video proof documenting murder of suspected Gbagbo militants
FRANCE 24’s Observers Team has been able to obtain and verify video documenting the brutal murder of three suspected militants loyal to former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo in Abobo, a suburb just outside of the main city of Abidjan. The footage constitutes the first authenticated images of an act of violence against suspected Gbagbo supporters during last year’s post-electoral conflict. Read more...
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