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COTE D'IVOIRE: Pregnancy one more strike for girls’ education

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Sylvie Kouamé*, 17, told IRIN she had sex for money with a man she met on line in her home country Côte d’Ivoire. She needed a few dollars for school...

Ivory Coast sends army to secure cocoa-growing area

http://af.reuters.com/article/burkinaFasoNews/idAFLV11517320081231

Friday, January 02, 2009

Ivory Coast has sent hundreds of soldiers to bolster security in its cocoa-growing west, but farmers caught up in simmering land disputes say that...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Malnutrition concerns in country’s prisons

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80115

Friday, November 28, 2008

DAKAR Tuesday, September 02, 2008 (IRIN) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a nutritional feeding programme at the...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Urban displaced slip into obscurity

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80649

Friday, November 28, 2008

DAKAR Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - People who flee to cities because of conflicts or natural disasters tend to become invisible to the...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Shaky peace leading into elections

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80702

Friday, November 28, 2008

ABIDJAN Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - As presidential elections approach at year-end after repeated delays, analysts worry slow progress on...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Farmers return to land in west after deadly clashes

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81728

Friday, November 28, 2008

DAKAR Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Some 70 long-displaced farmers - mostly immigrants - returned this week to a cocoa plantation in western...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Who is to blame for dumping toxic oil sludge?

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80684

Saturday, November 22, 2008

ABIDJAN Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - A trial is under way in Abidjan of local officials accused of conniving in the dumping of toxic oil...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Toxic waste criminal investigations may indict higher-ups

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80710

Saturday, November 22, 2008

DAKAR Thursday, October 02, 2008 (IRIN) - Ivorian government lawyers have said they may pursue criminal investigations against the Netherlands-based...

COTE D'IVOIRE: “Rapes are encouraged”

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81038

Saturday, November 22, 2008

DAKAR Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Rapes of women and girls are common in western Côte d’Ivoire and generally go unpunished, said residents of...

COTE D'IVOIRE: “Alarming” malnutrition in north

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81119

Saturday, November 22, 2008

DAKAR Friday, October 24, 2008 (IRIN) - In Côte d’Ivoire government health officials and aid agencies are launching emergency feeding and special...

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