Ivory Coast President Wins Third Term in Disputed Vote

Electoral officials said Alassane Ouattara won Saturday's vote in a landslide but his opponents boycotted the election after he defied constitutional term limits.
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With Elections Ahead, Some African Presidents Try Engineering Results

Presidential elections are scheduled soon in at least 10 African countries. Many incumbents are changing constitutions and bending rules to ensure they stay in power.
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Migrant Boy Dies After Confinement on Italian Quarantine Ship

The 15-year-old from Ivory Coast died in a hospital after being evacuated from one of the cruise ships where Italian authorities are keeping migrants as part of efforts to limit the spread of Covid-19.
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Ivory Coast Prime Minister Dies After Cabinet Meeting

Amadou Gon Coulibaly had just returned to the West African country from France, where he had been receiving treatment for a heart condition.
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Terrorism Threat in West Africa Soars as U.S. Weighs Troop Cuts

The Pentagon and the State Department are sending mixed messages about reducing America's presence in a region bloodied by terrorist violence.
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West African Countries Take a Step Away From Colonial-Era Currency

A bloc of eight countries will rename their French-backed currency and France will scrap a contentious requirement for reserve deposits.
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‘A New Message’: Russia Trains Its Propaganda Machine on Africa

Many of the players who drove Moscow's campaign for influence in the West are now backing Putin's African charm offensive.
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Has Western L.G.B.T.Q. Activism Actually Hurt the Cause in Africa?

Robbie Corey-Boulet's "Love Falls on Us" points out the negative consequences of American humanitarian efforts abroad.
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Less Trash, More Schools — One Plastic Brick at a Time

Plastic garbage collected by a women's group is being recycled into bricks and used to build schools in West Africa.
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A Brutal Disease Kills Monkeys. Flies Could Be Spreading It.

A downside of social living among monkeys and chimpanzees, a new study suggests, is being at greater risk of deadly disease.
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3 Teenage Migrants Are Charged in Malta With Hijacking Ship at Sea

The suspects, said to be a sociology major and two high school students, allegedly forced a small tanker that had rescued them and others off Libya to head for Europe.
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Laurent Gbagbo, Former Ivory Coast Leader, Acquitted of Crimes Against Humanity

Mr. Gbagbo is the first former head of state to be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Teaching Children Regardless of Grade

Educators in a remote valley in India devised a community approach to instructing students when teachers were sparse. It's catching on.
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African Officials Respond to France?s Restitution Report

Government officials from Senegal and the Ivory Coast ask for African treasures to be returned.
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A Taste of Ivory Coast in Brooklyn

Cheick Cisse, the owner of New Ivoire in Harlem, opened Paradis des Gouts hoping to share the food of his childhood with those outside his immigrant community.
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Semenya wins Prefontaine 800 in world's best time this year

South Africa's Caster Semenya won 800 meters at the Prefontaine Classic while controversy swirls about a rule that could limit her from competing at the distance
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UN adopts measure linking conflict to hunger and starvation

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution that for the first time recognizes the link between conflict and hunger and condemns the use of starvation as a method of warfare.
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Semenya wins 1500 in Diamond League opener in Doha

Caster Semenya's quest for a title double in the Diamond League starts well when she wins the 1,500 meters in a South African record time in Doha
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WORLD CUP: Morocco back after 2 decades with eye on 2 events

Back after 20 years, Morocco out to prove its World Cup worth as it could be a future tournament host by the time it kicks off in Russia
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In this April 14, 2018 photo provided by the United Nations, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council at United Nations ...

In this April 14, 2018 photo provided by the United Nations, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council at United Nations headquarters. The veteran diplomat died suddenly on Wednes
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