Paul Melly West Africa analyst Reuters Even a stellar international business career cannot prepare you for the hard realities of politics in Ivory Coast, where some are questioning the democratic credentials of the West African nation most famous for being the producer of much of the world’s cocoa and some of its finest footballers. That...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Getty Images The decision, which cannot be appealed, could end the Tidjane Thiam’s ambition to run for president Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader has been removed from the electoral roll by the judiciary which says he is ineligible to run in October’s presidential election. Tidjane Thiam renounced his French citizenship...
Former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam is to run for president in Ivory Coast’s forthcoming election, his party has confirmed. Thiam, 62, was the only candidate vying to represent the country’s main opposition party, the PDCI. Thiam has spent the last two decades living abroad, and had to give up his French citizenship to be...
COMICI Marlène-Kany Kouassi is one of only two winners of Miss Ivory Coast over the last six decades to wear her crown over natural hair Long, flowing wigs and weave extensions have dominated the catwalks of Ivory Coast’s massively popular beauty pageants for years. Contestants in the West African nation often spend a huge amount...