Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader has said he is resigning as party leader but would still lead the fight to win the election, after having been barred from standing in an October ...

Only a few hundred protesters turned up to a rally for the Ivory Coast's main opposition party on Thursday after its candidate, Tidjane Thiam, was banned from standing in the October 25 ...

Ivory Coast's main opposition leader has been removed from the electoral roll by the judiciary which says he is ineligible to run in October's presidential election. Tidjane Thiam renounced his ...

Thousands of Tidjane Thiam's supporters protested in Abidjan against his exclusion from Ivory Coast's presidential vote due to a nationality dispute. The court argued Thiam lost Ivorian ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will leave the country this month after a decades-long military presence, becoming the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former ...

Tidjane Thiam was born in the Ivory Coast and renounced his French passport in March to enable his run for the top job [File: Luc Gnago/Reuters] 32,963 people played the daily Crossword recently.

The decision, which cannot be challenged, could end Tidjane Thiam's hopes of running for president Ivory Coast's main opposition leader has been removed from the electoral roll by the judiciary ...