Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast this week received its first vaccines against malaria, a disease that kills four people a day in the country, mostly small children, the government said Saturday. A total of 656,600 doses have been received, which will…
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: Let the party begin. Sebastien Haller scored late to lead host nation Ivory Coast to a remarkable Africa Cup of Nations title with a 2-1 victory over Nigeria in the final on Sunday. Haller fired in from close…
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Ivory Coast coach Emerse Fae described his team’s achievement in winning through to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations as being “like a dream” after the tournament hosts beat the Democratic Republic of Congo 1-0 in Wednesday’s last-four…
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Sebastien Haller fired host nation Ivory Coast into an Africa Cup of Nations final against old foe Nigeria with a 1-0 win over Congo on Wednesday. Haller scored when his volley from Max Gradel’s cross bounced before going in under the…
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Hosts Ivory Coast stunned Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday, knocking out the reigning champions on penalties in the last 16 to keep their hopes of winning the title on home soil alive. A week ago it looked as if the…
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Hakim Ziyech scored to give Morocco a 1-0 Africa Cup of Nations Group F win over Zambia on Wednesday — a result that enabled hosts Ivory Coast to scrape into the last 16. The Ivorians, humbled 4-0 by Equatorial Guinea on Monday, were…
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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday met with his Ivorian counterpart Kacou Houadja Leon Adom in Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The prince and Adom signed a memorandum of understanding regarding political…
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, a senior public official announced Friday, in yet another major reshuffle in the West African nation. Prime Minister Patrick…
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