The Latest Breaking News from Abidjan

Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, won a fifth consecutive title at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 3 August. The Conversation Africa asked Michael Gbemisola Aina, a technical commissioner of the Nigeria Basketball Federation who has researched basketball development in Nigeria, about what the win…

Thousands of Ivorians took to the streets in Abidjan, the main city of the West African nation, to protest against the exclusion of opposition leaders from the upcoming presidential election.

Tensions over upcoming elections and the barring of an opposition candidate are mounting.

Tensions are rising in Côte d'Ivoire after a court ruled that opposition candidate Tidjane Thiam is not eligible to run in October’s presidential election because he lost his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen.

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, the Ivorian president said France would hand over control of the Abidjan military base to his country’s army.

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has announced that French forces will hand over control of their military base in Abidjan in January, continuing the former colonial power’s military exit from West Africa.

The annual exhibition, held in a working-class area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, is organised by photographer Aïda Muluneh, who is determined to tap into the continent’s creative potential

Resurgence of poetry culture among west African youth amid political instability, economic insecurity and jihadist threat

Pope Francis will on Saturday create 21 new cardinals from five continents, including bishops from Algiers, Tehran, Tokyo and Abidjan -- many of whom may one day help choose his successor.