Ivory Coast holds first major election since 2010 when 3,000 people died in widespread violence. The atmosphere at the Lac Two polling station in Koumassi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, was calm on Sunday. Voting for hundreds of mayors and local councillors seemed to get off to a slow start. There were queues of just seven to […]
Côte d’Ivoire begins grim task of exhuming mass graves
4 April 2013 by
Ivorian authorities have begun exhuming dozens of mass graves dating back to the country’s 2011 post-election violence. The exercise started on Thursday as a new report accused Alassane Ouattara, Ivory Coast’s president, of failing to bring his supporters to justice for crimes they allegedly committed during the conflict. Justice Minister Gnenema Coulibaly presided over […]