Liberia, Ivory Coast Condemn Repeated Arm Attacks At Borders

/ PRNewswire Africa / - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Ms. Aichatou Mindaoudou Souleymane of Niger as his Special Representative for Côte d'Ivoire and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte ...

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday named former Dutch government minister Bert Koenders as head of the key UN mission in Mali where French and African troops are battling Islamist militants.Koenders will head UN efforts to help Mali's interim ...

The United States remains, as ever, a staunch supporter of United Nations peacekeeping, and we express our gratitude to all of the personnel deployed in peacekeeping missions as well as those at Headquarters supporting the work of peacekeepers in ...

(WASHINGTON) A report released by a United Nations commission this week said it has identified thousands of ammunition rounds produced in Sudan that were used by forces loyal to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo. Former Ivory Coast ...

Concerned that the circulation of weapons continued to pose "significant" risks to the stability of C'te d'Ivoire, the Security Council today extended its arms embargo, as well as financial and travel measures, against the West African nation, until ...

Ouattara has been forced by the need to hold some form of plebiscite to demonstrate that his French-imposed Presidency of the country has some legitimacy in the Ivory Coast. He has just held municipal and local elections throughout the country which ...

UNITED NATIONS, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Thursday renewed sanctions on Cote d'Ivoire for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on diamond imports from the African country, which continues to face a tenuous security ...

Cote d'Ivoire is a democratic republic. Legislative elections held in December 2011, although boycotted by the main opposition party, were considered free and fair by the international community and certified by the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire ...

Ivorians turned out in low numbers for Sunday's local elections, seen as a test of stability in the west African nation in a poll boycotted by former president Laurent Gbagbo's party. The UN had appealed for calm after skirmishes during the election ...