February Events
Côte d'voire: ONUCI chief points out limited powers, as mandate comes up for review
With just over a month left to run on their current mandate, the 10,000 UN and French peacekeeping troops in Côte d'Ivoire face an uncertain future in which their role may have to be redefined.
Disarm the north or leave, Ivory Coast president tells UN peacekeepers
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo used his hardest tone yet Tuesday in demands that the 10,000 French and UN peacekeepers in the west African country disarm the rebels holding the north or leave immediately.
Burkina Faso: Thousands of migrants now living as strangers in their homeland
More than 365,000 people have fled from violence in Cote d'Ivoire to safety in Burkina Faso over the last two years. However there are no haunting images of refugee camps, packed to overflowing with people who have lost everything. For the new arrivals are former Burkinabe migrants going home. They have simply melted into the villages and the countryside, taken in by relatives and in some cases, even strangers.
Côte d'Ivoire: Lost generation feared in Ivorian school chaos
It looks deceptively as if Cote d.Ivoire is at peace again. Many schools have reopened in the rebel-run north and noisy groups of children wearing black and white or gingham check uniforms kick up the dust on their way to class in the morning.
WFP: Tsunami overshadows aid for Africa's hungry
With 22 million people in Africa desperately short of food, the United Nations World Food Programme called today for the world to respond to the continent.s hunger with the same commitment and compassion shown recently towards the survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Côte d'Ivoire: HIV/AIDS time-bomb ticking away in rebel north
As the only girl in a family of five orphaned by HIV/AIDS, Awa Keita spends the day cooking and cleaning for her brothers and her own baby boy.
Ivory Coast rebels deny preparing for new war
Ivory Coast's rebels denied Saturday they were preparing for a new war against President Laurent Gbagbo's government, after announcing they were boosting their presence on the front lines of the conflict.