New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Thursday renewed, for another year, its set of sanctions imposed on Cote d’Ivoire, but adjusted the arms embargo in the light of the need for weapons and ammunition to train and equip the country’s security forces.Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A government delegation from Cote d'Ivoire, led by the Foreign Affairs Minister, Daniel Kaban Duncan, arrived here Friday for a 24-hour official visit to Angola, PANA reported, quoting the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP). Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 17h plenary meeting of the technical commission of the Inter-government Action Group Against Money Laundering (GIABA) will be held 2-5 May in Abidjan, the business capital of Côte d'Ivoire, a GIABA statement said. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council will meet at the ministerial level Thursday in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, to review proposals for resolving the political crises in Mali and Guinea Bissau. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An emergency meeting of the ECOWAS Joint Chiefs of Defence Staff opened Thursday in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital, to discuss the political situation in Mali, including the possible deployment of a regional military force to the country. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Ivorian authorities on Sunday afternoon reopened the border with Mali which was closed following last week's coup in Mali, official sources told PANA. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Ousmane Sy Savané, the Director General of Cylcone, a pro-Gbagbo publishing company, was reportedly picked up and detained by Ivorian Police, PANA confirmed from here Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - It is time for the Ivorian authorities to cooperate fully with an International Criminal Court (ICC) probe into human rights abuses following the disputed 2010 presidential election, Amnesty International said, a year after the conflict's Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian newspapers on Monday hailed the ''fair play'' exhibited by outgoing Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who admitted defeat by congratulating his opponent, Mr. Macky Sall, following Sunday's presidential runoff. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian press Wednesday paid tribute to the former culture minister, Bernard Zadi Zaourou, who died Tuesday of heart complications. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Friday granted Côte d’Ivoire US$22.5 million to help the country improve its food security and revenues of small peasants, young men and rural women, according to a statement from the Rome-based organization. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, on Tuesday appointed the former Minister of Justice, Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio, Prime Minister to replace Guillaume Soro. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - This year's annual general meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) will be held from 28 May to 1 June in Arusha, Tanzania, a communiqué of the Pan African bank indicated. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The former Prime minister of Côte d'Ivoire, Guillaume Soro, was Monday elected speaker of the National Assembly with 236 votes or 94.77% of the votes cast at Yamoussoukro, the country's political and administrative capital city.Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Guillaume Soro, who has resigned as the Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire Thursday, said he is leaving ''with a light heart and a sense of job well done". Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian Prime minister, Guillaume Soro, on Thursday tendered his resignation and that of his government to President Alassane Ouattara. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) – Ivorian legislators, elected during the 11 December polls and 26 February by-elections, will elect their speaker on Monday, 12 March, 2012, PANA learnt Thursday from parliamentary sources. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) said on Thursday that it would assess the situation in two constituencies where there were some “incidents” during last weekend’s legislative by-elections. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has hailed the adoption of a new Code of Ethics for journalists in Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Impressed by the organization of the recently-ended ECOWAS cycling tour, the Ivorian government has honoured the Director of the ECOWAS Youth and Sports Development Centre, Mr. Francis Chuks Njoaguani, with the "Knight of the Order of Sports".Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for a six-month extension in the mandate of Côte d’Ivoire’s national commission of inquiry investigating the 2010-2011 post-election violence. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Nigerian cyclists have blamed poor preparation, irregular competitions and inadequate feeding during camping for their poor performance at the just-concluded 2nd ECOWAS Cycling Tour. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Five sports will feature in the 2nd edition of the ECOWAS Games, to be held in Ghana in June, according to the Director ECOWAS Youth and Sports Development Centre, Mr Francis Njoaguani. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Burkina Faso's Rasmane Quadraogo has emerged the winner of the 2nd ECOWAS International Cycling Tour, which rounded off in Abidjan, the Ivorian commercial capital, on Sunday. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The president of Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, announced on Monday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, that five universities would be established in the next five years in his country. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, on Friday established a commission regulating the stabilization and development of the cocoa/coffee sector. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Côte d’Ivoire will be reconciled if the country wins the African Cup of Nations (CAN), which kicks off on Saturday in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, according to the Ivorian reggae star, Tiken Jah Facoly.Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday had talks with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - With just four days to go before the kickoff of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, Cote d'Ivoire is sending a strong warning to other teams that it intends to end its 10-year drought and win the coveted title again. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -The Head of United Nations Operations in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI), Bert Koenders, said on Monday that humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable populations remained a priority, nine months after the post-electoral crisis that rocked the country. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – A high-level meeting between Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire will open on Sunday in the Malian city of Sikasso, official sources told PANA. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to arrive in Abidjan on Monday on a two-day working visit to Cote d'Ivoire, PANA learnt from diplomatic sources. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – Former Ivorian Economy and Finance Minister, Paul-Antoine Bohoun Bouabré, who was facing charges of financial crimes in the post-electoral crisis that rocked the country last year is dead. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian council of minister has adopted the nation's 2012 budget, amounting to 3,160 billion FCFA, PANA learnt from official sources. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The following is the profile of Ivorian and Manchester City star, Yaya Toure, who won the Glo CAF African Footballer of the Year 2011 on Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative and the head of the UN peacekeeping operation in Cote d' Ivoire (UNOCI), Bert Koenders, on Monday deplored the deadly clashes in the west of the country that reportedly killed at least six people over the weekend. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorians were voting Sunday to elect 255 candidates out of the 950 contesting the country's legislative polls, the first since last year's presidential elections which ended in a crisis that left at least 3,000 dead. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Ahead of Sunday's legislative polls in Cote d'Ivoire, the US has called on all Ivorians to respect the democratic process and go to the polls peacefully. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) election observers have arrived in Cote d'Ivoire ahead of the 11 December parliamentary elections, marred by boycott threats. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's former President Jerry John Rawlings has condemned the "hasty procedure" that led to the transfer of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to the Hague to be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying this could be described as an "abduction”. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Hague-based the International Criminal Court (ICC) will begin confirmation of charges hearing against Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, on 18 June, 2012.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission announced on Friday that it would deploy 60 observers for the 8-13 December 2011 legislative election in Cote d'Ivoire, at the "special request" of the Ivorian government. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is due to make an initial appearance before Pre-Trial Chamber III of the International criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague 5 December, the court said in a statement obtained by PANA here Wednesday. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - To protest the arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague on Tuesday of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, the former ruling coalition National Resistance Congress for Democracy (CNRD) has pulled out of the country's Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - Three journalists have been arrested and detained in Abidjan prison on charges of ''incitement to theft, pillaging and destruction of public properties through the media''. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo assured on Wednesday that more Ivorians will be brought to face justice over the crimes they committed during Cote d'Ivoire's long-drawn political crisis. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The transfer of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for his alleged role in international crimes during his country's devastating post-election violence is a major step toward ensuring justice, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement issued here and obtained by PANA Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed taking custody of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, following the arrest warrant issued for him by the court's pre-trial chamber. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for former president of Cote d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo for war crimes, following a brief but bloody civil war in the West African state after last year's disputed presidential election results. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, is expected Wednesday in Brussels for a one-day working visit to Belgium, PANA learnt from EU official sources. Full text...