12:41 GMT 25th January 2012
Cote d'Ivoire will from this month start the forward selling of future cocoa crops, according to, a document outlining government plans to reverse a decade of liberalisation in the world's largest grower
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02:57 GMT 21st December 2011
Cote d'Ivoire will resume payments on its defaulted 2032 $2.3bn bond starting with the June 30 coupon due next year, the finance ministry said in November.
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03:58 GMT 8th November 2011
Cote d' Ivoire's economy will grow 8 to 9 per cent in 2012, after shrinking 5.8 per cent in 2011 due largely to the effects of a civil war, the IMF said in September.
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10:07 GMT 28th September 2011
Former President Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone, detained since he was ousted from power in April, have been charged with 'economic crimes, armed robbery, looting and embezzlement' the public prosecutor said last month
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01:29 GMT 31st August 2011
Cote d'Ivoire's 80,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery plans to boost its capaciry by 25 per cent in the next decade to 5 million tonnes a year, from 4 million now, its director general, Joel Dervain, said last month.
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02:10 GMT 18th July 2011
Cocoa farmgate prices in Cote d'Ivoire's cocoa growing regions rose mid-June, according to Coffee and Cocoa Bourse (BCC) figures, amid strong demand from grinders and exporters.
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11:22 GMT 15th July 2011
More than two months after the end of the postelection crisis, at least 300,000 people remain displaced across the country.
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02:08 GMT 15th July 2011
Cote d'Ivoire will struggle to return to the ideals of its founding presidend Felix Houphouet-Boigny after the recent violence in the country.
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03:47 GMT 14th June 2011
UN investigators have discovered at least 68 bodies in a mass grave 10 a soccer field in the commercial, capital, Abidjan, the Associated Press reported last month.
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11:50 GMT 20th May 2011
Gbagbo's surrender in the face of French military intervention may have ended the standoff but presents his rival OuaHara with the challenge of uniting the divided nation, writes Ayo Johnson
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02:10 GMT 19th May 2011
'Cote d'Ivoire was known as the African miracle and Abidjan the Paris of Africa'
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12:17 GMT 11th April 2011
The country edged closer to civil war last month as forces backing Alassane Ouattara attacked those loyal to disputed President Laurent Gbagbo in the capital Abidjan.
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04:10 GMT 25th March 2011
Disruptions to energy supplies have forced some cocoa processing facilities in Cote d'Ivoire to shut temporarily.
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12:30 GMT 23rd March 2011
'The choice Campaore as Chief Mediator in Cote d'Ivoire supports the view that the AU shares the blame for the impunity of Africa's leadership'
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04:19 GMT 22nd March 2011
The United Nations says 296 people have been killed since a presidential standoff escalated in the West African country in midDecember.
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