Ivory Coast, Africa

As politicians bicker in Côte d’Ivoire, children are dying from a breakdown of health care and other basic services or falling victim to violent...

When she awoke on 11 September to go to work, Valerie Amessan did not imagine that the strike by state doctors in Cote d'Ivoire was going to upend...

One week into a nationwide strike, the union of state doctors in Cote d’Ivoire has again rebuffed a call by the heath ministry to reinstate at least...

In Côte d’Ivoire people are being turned away from public hospitals as all state doctors have gone on strike, shutting down even minimum services in...

Diabetes patients in Cote d’Ivoire are appealing for help, as a lack of insulin in the country’s public pharmacies has put the medicine out of reach...

Rural areas in Côte d'Ivoire seem to have fallen off the map in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, and although the HIV prevalence rates are still lower...

The Ivorian health ministry is reviewing its policy of charging fees for health services, hearing recommendations from UN agencies, aid groups and...

The Ivorian health ministry is reviewing its policy of charging fees for health services, hearing recommendations from UN agencies, aid groups and...

The top UN humanitarian official in Côte d’Ivoire says aid groups urgently need funds to help head off tensions in the west, where war-displaced...

Severe water and food shortages in Somalia’s northeastern self-declared autonomous region of Puntland are forcing families to leave their homes to...