By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Ivory Coast opposition leader Tidjane Thiam said on Wednesday he would fight on to run in the ...

The international police agency Interpol says that police raids have rescued 33 West Africans from a human trafficking ring ...

Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years ...

Only a few hundred protesters turned up to a rally for the Ivory Coast's main opposition party on Thursday after its ...

Tension is mounting after an attempted coup in Burkina Faso. Officials say a plot to overthrow Capt Ibrahim Traoré has been foiled.

Burkina Faso’s military govt says it has foiled a “coup plot” to overthrow Ibrahim Traoré, junta leader, accusing soldiers of ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on ...

An Ivory Coast court on Tuesday struck main opposition leader Tidjane Thiam off the nation’s electoral list, closing the door ...

Jean Mari Konan Yao says he’s struggling as a cocoa farmer in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s cocoa supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate.

Youssouf Kouyate, director general of the Ivory Coast National Police ... Scams of this type are increasingly common in West Africa and police forces across the region have conducted mass raids ...