CAF has opened an invitation to tender (ITT) for the media rights in the Sub-Saharan Africa region on a Pay/Pay-per-View and Free to Air basis to a large number of CAF events in 2023, 2024 and 2025, including its flagship events; the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023, TotalEnergies Africa Cup of […]
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Abidjan — Cybastion, a rapidly growing cybersecurity firm, is pleased to announce its role as a founding sponsor at the 2023 Cyber Africa Forum (CAF) in Cote d’Ivoire on April 24-25, 2023. The theme for this year’s forum is “Challenges, actors, and partnerships: what solutions to secure the digitalization of Africa?” The Forum will bring […]
The third edition of the Cyber Africa Forum (CAF) will be held at the Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire (Côte d’Ivoire) on April 24 th and 25 th of April 2023. This year’s edition will tackle a pressing theme: “Challenges, actors and partnerships: the solutions to secure Africa’s digital transformation. The forum will address the necessity […]
Abidjan, COTE D’IVOIRE — Cybastion, a rapidly growing cybersecurity firm, is pleased to announce its role as a founding sponsor at the 2023 Cyber Africa Forum (CAF) in Cote d’Ivoire on April 24-25, 2023. The theme for this year’s forum is “Challenges, actors, and partnerships: what solutions to secure the digitalization of Africa?” and will […]
La troisième édition du Cyber Africa Forum (CAF) se tiendra au Sofitel Abidjan Hôtel Ivoire (Côte d’Ivoire) les 24 et 25 avril prochains. Placé sous le thème « Enjeux, acteurs et partenariats : quelles solutions pour sécuriser la transformation digitale de l’Afrique ? », le Forum abordera cette année la nécessité de renforcer les partenariats multisectoriels et transnationaux en […]
Belgian researchers report that 45 percent of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire in the past decade is the result of unregulated cocoa production. Researchers from the Belgian university of Louvain found that 45 percent of the destruction of forest in Côte d’Ivoire between 2000 and 2019 was the result of unregulated cocoa production. Tropical forest covering […]
Harare — Africans are facing some of the greatest challenges of our time. Food insecurity, resulting from flooding and drought, along with conflict, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and high food and fuel prices, has forced people to flee their homes and the region now has 4.5 million refugees and asylum seekers as well […]
Cote d’Ivoire has lifted its Covid-imposed land border closure, officially re-opening its roads to neighboring countries after nearly three years. The country shut down all borders on 22 March 2020 at the start of the Covid pandemic. Sea and air borders were reopened after a few months, as the country depends on exports of cocoa […]
Washington, DC — When President Joe Biden, addressing the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December, thanked major American corporations like Microsoft, General Electric and Visa for announcing some $15 billion in new deals, he included mention of “a diaspora-owned small business” called Cybastion that jointly with Cisco had signed contracts “to protect African countries from cyber […]
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has said he hopes Côte d’Ivoire and Mali can move on from the diplomatic crisis sparked by the arrest last year in Bamako of a contingent of Ivorian soldiers, accused by Mali of being mercenaries. Forty-six Ivorian soldiers arrived in Abidjan last weekend, having been pardoned by the neighbouring country’s junta. […]
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Mali Pardons 49 Ivorian Soldiers
The soldiers were arrested in July and accused of conspiring against the Malian government. Three had been sentenced to death in absentia. Mali’s transitional government has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested earlier this year, a spokesman said on Friday. The soldiers were arrested in July at the airport in the Malian capital Bamako and were […]
The court said the Ivorian soldiers sought to undermine Mali’s security. The arrest of the soldiers has sparked a diplomatic row between the two West African nations. Forty-six Ivory Coast soldiers were sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring against Mali’s government, a court in Mali ruled on Friday. Public prosecutor Ladji Sara said […]
The massacre at the seaside town of Grand-Bassam was carried out by al-Qaeda in 2016, with 19 people losing their lives in Ivory Coast’s first jihadi attack. A court in Ivory Coast sentenced 11 people to life in prison on Wednesday for their involvement in an Islamic extremist attack that occurred almost seven years ago […]
In the presence of the Togolese mediator and Cote d’Ivoire delegation, the Malian government agreed on Thursday in Bamako to release the 46 Ivoirian soldiers who have been detained for the past five months in the Malian capital. The Ivorian ministerial delegation arrived on Thursday, along with the Togolese facilitator, for talks with the Malian […]
Restoration works on the Djidji Ayôkwé, or “talking drum”, have now been completed in Paris. The artefact, stored at the Quai Branly museum, is ready to be returned to Côte d’Ivoire under a restitution plan promised by President Emmanuel Macron. The legendary drum, which once belonged to the Ebrié people, (previously known as the Tchamans), […]
Ghana and La Cote d’Ivoire have been urged to consider the emerging security threats confronting the West African Region as an incentive to jointly manage their common land and maritime boundaries to safeguard the territorial integrities of both countries. Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, who made the call, said as countries […]
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Africa: Kolo Toure Appointed Wigan Boss
Wigan Athletic have appointed former Arsenal and Manchester City defender Kolo Toure as their new manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 41-year-old replaces Leam Richardson after he was sacked by the Championship club earlier this month. The Ivorian has spent the past five years coaching at Celtic and Leicester City under Brendan Rodgers but this […]
The former youth minister and accused militia leader returned to Ivory Coast after years in exile. He was acquitted of crimes against humanity at the ICC over his role in deadly post-election violence in 2010. Charles Ble Goude returned to Ivory Coast on Saturday for the first time in 11 years as the country’s leaders […]