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LIBERIA: “Security Risk” at Ivory Coast Border Ahead of Elections
As Liberia gears up for Tuesday’s presidential and legislative elections, officials stationed near the border with Ivory Coast have expressed concern that insufficient border security – a problem...
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Liberians Turn Out in Numbers to Vote
Liberians cast their ballots Tuesday in an election that has so far been described as orderly and peaceful, though concerns persist that a disputed result could anger voters and fuel minor unrest....
View ArticleLIBERIA: Former Warlord Backs Johnson-Sirleaf for Second Term
Former warlord Prince Johnson, who placed third in Liberia’s election last week, has endorsed the re-election bid of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who was named a joint winner of the Nobel Peace...
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LIBERIA: Runoff Goes Ahead Despite Boycott and Killings
Liberians headed to the polls in what appeared to be modest numbers Tuesday morning for a presidential runoff that has been marred by an opposition boycott and the deaths of at least two demonstrators...
View ArticleSecurity Gaps Fuel Cote d’Ivoire Prison Escapes
Eliane Negui knew just what to do when she got word that a group of inmates had escaped from Abidjan’s main prison, MACA, earlier this month. After all, the 24-year-old, who has lived across a dirt...
View ArticleLean Times Get Leaner in Northern Cote d’Ivoire
Salimata Coulibaly, director of a medical centre in the town of Korhogo in the northern Cote d’Ivoire region of Savanes, stood before a chart displaying before-and-after photos of local children – one...
View ArticleCôte d’Ivoire’s Universities – Shedding a Legacy of Violence and Corruption
Yacouba Coulibaly was pursuing a doctorate in education at Cocody University in Abidjan before Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election violence started in 2010. But his classes were routinely disrupted by armed...
View ArticleReluctant Farewell to Arms in Côte d’Ivoire
In his black boots and green fatigues – complete with arm patches bearing the name of the national army, Forces Republicaines de Côte d’Ivoire – Ousmane Kone looked every bit the soldier as he stood...
View ArticleIvorians Deal With European Stink
Nouma Camara, a 40-year-old tailor, remembers waking up on Aug. 20, 2006 to a smell he described as “something catastrophic.” His home in Akouedo village, in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital city of...
View ArticleAnti-gay Stigma Hinders Bid to Lower Côte d’Ivoire’s HIV Rate
When Emmanuel Kokou, a 28-year-old sex worker, moved from his native Togo to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in 2010, he knew there was a good chance that he had previously been exposed to HIV. But he had no...
View ArticleVictor’s Justice Plays Out in Côte d’Ivoire
The extradition of high-level allies of former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo from Ghana back to their home country, including a most recent one on Feb. 5, has brought renewed scrutiny to the...
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Ivorians Snub Government
A billboard in Abidjan's Cocody neighbourhood urges Ivoirians to refrain from defacing campaign materials. Credit: Robbie Corey-Boulet/IPSLast week’s local elections in Côte d’Ivoire were supposed to...
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KENYA: ICC Suspects Cautious at ‘Heroes Welcome’
Robbie Corey-BouletBy Robbie Corey-BouletNAIROBI, Apr 11 2011 (IPS) Two alleged organisers of violence around Kenya’s December 2007 elections delivered impassioned speeches during a raucous political...
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Wrestling Over ICC’s Role in Africa
Analysis by Robbie Corey-BouletBy Robbie Corey-BouletNAIROBI, Apr 14 2011 (IPS) On its face, Kenya’s failed bid to defer International Criminal Court cases against alleged organisers of post-election...
View ArticleKENYA: Frustration Over Limits of ICC Charges
Robbie Corey-BouletBy Robbie Corey-BouletNAIROBI, Apr 29 2011 (IPS) A decision to exclude crimes committed in the western city of Kisumu and the Nairobi slum of Kibera from a case against alleged...
View ArticleKENYA: Rights Defender Deemed ‘Contrary to National Interest’
Robbie Corey-BouletBy Robbie Corey-BouletNAIROBI, May 18 2011 (IPS) At about 9 pm on May 10, British human rights lawyer Clara Gutteridge arrived at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport from...
View ArticleNew Leadership for the ICC
By Robbie Corey-BouletNAIROBI, May 27 2011 (IPS) As the International Criminal Court gears up to elect six judges and a new prosecutor, observers are warning that political rather than merit-based...
View ArticleConcern over ICC Funding
Robbie Corey-BouletBy Robbie Corey-BouletMONROVIA, Sep 28 2011 (IPS) International justice advocates are worried that donors will deprive the International Criminal Court (ICC) of sufficient funding...
View ArticleLiberian Muslims Allege Disenfranchisement
Stephen S. Binda and Robbie Corey-BouletBy Robbie Corey-BouletBONG COUNTY, Liberia , Oct 6 2011 (IPS) It seems all of Liberia is paying close attention to the campaign for the Oct. 11 presidential and...
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LIBERIA: Mixed Reviews for Johnson-Sirleaf’s Nobel Peace Prize
Robbie Corey-Boulet*By Robbie Corey-BouletMONROVIA , Oct 9 2011 (IPS) As the Norwegian Nobel Committee named Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf a joint winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize,...
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