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  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Duncan served as foreign minister from 2011-12 and then as prime minister in charge of economy and finance from 2012-17 Ivory Coast’s Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has stepped down less than a week after the sudden death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly. Duncan “handed …

By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah The 61-year-old had been chosen as the ruling party’s candidate for October’s presidential election, after Alassane Ouattara said he would not seek a third term in office. Mr Gon Coulibaly had only just returned from France where he had received two-months’ heart treatment. President Ouattara said …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Senegal will deploy military and police to enforce a curfew Senegal and Ivory Coast have declared states of emergency over the outbreak of the coronavirus. Senegalese President Macky Sall said the state of emergency would start on Tuesday midnight, accompanied by a curfew from 8:00pm to 6:00am …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The National Lottery Authority(NLA) led by the Director-General, Hon. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw on Friday, 15th November, 2019 received a Government Delegation from the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire(Ivory Coast) at the Authority’s Headquarters in Accra. The Ivorian Delegation visited the Authority to understudy the new business model, …

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Guillaume Soro Former Ivory Coast rebel leader, Guillaume Soro, has announced plans to run in the West African state’s presidential election scheduled for next year. Guillaume Soro led the rebels that tried and failed to oust former President Laurent Gbagbo in 2002, dividing the country for nearly …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah DJ Arafat Ivory Coast’s DJ Arafat, a well-known singer in French-speaking Africa, has died following a traffic accident, state broadcaster RTI is reporting. He was admitted to hospital in the main city, Abidjan, with a fractured skull after his motorcycle collided with a car on Sunday, Jeune …

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo.   He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a disputed 2010 election that left 3,000 dead and 500,000 displaced. Mr Gbagbo was captured in 2011 in a presidential …