The EU is reportedly to launch a civilian-military mission in #WestAfrica, with police and soldiers deployed to Ghana, Togo, Benin & #IvoryCoast in the fall. The mission will aim to train local security forces for anti-terror operations!?

A.k.a the EU is creating terrorist to retake or keep control in countries within Africa!!

https://dw.com/en/eu-planning-new-africa-mission-in-gulf-of-guinea-report/a-66640730

Listening to this old #ivoryCoast song makes me wonder whether the Congolese bass was heavily inspired by #Motown - this is basically Respect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01CM8jHzQpI

(although Ernesto Djédjé, the artist in the clip, was actually against the "Congolization" of Ivorian #music - the fact he ranted against it means the influence was everywhere though)

#africa

Wednesday, 23 August 2023 #NEWS #Newspaper 📰#Africa #WestAfrica #IvoryCoastNews #IvoryCoast 🇨🇮
#FocusNewsAfrica https://tinyurl.com/yckcu2sc Fight with machetees in the heart of Abidjan in Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
In Abobo Samanké's neighborhood, the atmosphere was shaken by a violent altercation between two groups claiming to be transport unionists.
SOURCE:
www.topinfosplus.com

Kicking off the week by welcoming Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (#IvoryCoast) as the 74th country to join the Boomtown family. Thanks for the support and for keeping #80smusic alive! #80s #boomtownpodcast

Forty-one migrants, including three children, died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-lampedusa-migrants-refugees-41-dead/ #racism #immigration #Guinea #IvoryCoast #Italy #Fascism #Meloni #Tunisia

ℹ All imports and exports of goods from #Niger have been suspended due to regional sanctions, the #IvoryCoast government said on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ivory-coast-government-suspends-import-export-niger-goods-2023-08-01/

Happy World Chocolate Day?

Well, not if you're one of the >1.6 million kids slaving away in West Africa (or Brazil or Latin America) for up to 14 hours/day, sometimes literally as slaves, under dangerous conditions, to produce the majority of the chocolate sold by the major candy companies, including Mars Wrigley, Ferrero, Mondelez International, Meiji Co. Ltd., Nestle and Hershey Co.

In 2021, SCOTUS ruled 8-1 that Big Chocolate had no responsibility to ensure that their products were not produced by child laborers.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #ChildLabor #chocolate #SCOTUS #slavery #WestAfrica #ghana #IvoryCoast

https://www.afrik21.africa/en/ivory-coast-e840m-to-be-spent-on-sanitation-and-drainage-by-2030/?ref=futurecrunch.com #IvoryCoast #sanitation #Goodnews

#IvoryCoast, 1992, 150 francs. First World Conference on the Environment and Development. This was the historic #UnitedNations Conference on Environment and Development held June 5-14 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Out of this Conference came #Agenda21, the Rio Declaration, the Statement of Forest Principles, the United Nations Framework Convention on #ClimateChange, and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
#stamps #stampcollecting #philately

The Roloway Monkey of #IvoryCoast and #Ghana is one of the most threatened monkeys in the world. Critically endangered, their main threat is deforestation for consumer-driven #palmoil #coal #agriculture. #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/15/roloway-monkey-cercopithecus-roloway/ via @palmoildetectives

#Chocolate lovers, be informed.

'In Africa's fields, a plan to pay fair wages for chocolate withers'
#Reuters

"More chocolate than ever is eaten globally, but a flagship programme launched in 2019 that promised a #LivingWage to growers like Kouadio in top cocoa producers #IvoryCoast and #Ghana has left many worse off, data and interviews with growers, traders and industry experts show."

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/africas-fields-plan-pay-fair-wages-chocolate-withers-2023-04-04/

#FairWage

Today's music:

Dobet Gnahoré - Na Drê

https://youtu.be/SIIljrGlY30

#mastomusic #world #music #np #NowPlaying #Bété #IvoryCoast

Today's music:

DOBET GNAHORE N'blibla

https://youtu.be/N0fuz4FKQKQ

#mastomusic #world #music #np #NowPlaying #Bété #Ziglibiti #IvoryCoast

France's President Emmanuel Macron announced that the remaining French bases in #Africa - in #Senegal, #IvoryCoast and #Gabon - would now be co-managed and shared with the forces of the host nations, and even available to welcome other external partners if those governments wished. Only the base in #Djibouti, strategically located at the mouth of the Red Sea will remain exclusively #French

#intelligence #news

#FRESPACO #AfricanCinema #Africa #BurkinaFaso #SubSahranAfrica #Mali #IvoryCoast #Tunisia #Tunisian #YoussefChebbi #Awards #Documentary #filmmaker #Films #African #News

https://tbhenry.medium.com/hundreds-of-sub-saharan-africans-flee-tunisia-as-burkinas-ib-traor%C3%A9-hands-out-award-to-tunisian-fc1e5d458959

Hundreds of students fly home to #Mali and #IvoryCoast from #Tunisia fearing attacks against migrants

https://www.africanews.com/2023/03/05/hundreds-of-students-fly-home-from-tunisia-after-attacks/

Ivorian troop returns home after Mali pardons

https://www.dw.com/en/ivorian-troop-returns-home-after-mali-pardons/a-64317180?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Mali #IvoryCoast #UnitedNations #ECOWAS #AlassaneOuattara

Pardoned Ivorian soldiers arrive home after six months in Malian captivity https://www.reuters.com/world/pardoned-ivorian-soldiers-arrive-home-after-six-months-malian-captivity-2023-01-08/ #IVORYCOAST/(UPDATE2,TV) #MALI

🗞️ Forty-six soldiers from #IvoryCoast were sentenced to 20 years in #Mali prison.
The 49 soldiers were detained in July when they went to work for Sahelian Aviation Services, a private company contracted to work in Mali by the United Nations.
Mali's government said it considered the Ivorians to be mercenaries because they were not directly employed by the U.N. mission and accused them of undermining state security.

#africa #UN #unitednation

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/46-Ivorian-soldiers-sentenced-to-20-years-in-Mali-17686194.php

Seydou Koné (French pronunciation: ​[sɛdu kɔne]; born January 1, 1953 in Dimbokro, better known by his stage name Alpha Blondy, is an Ivorian reggae singer and international recording artist. Many of his songs are politically and socially motivated...

#art #poetry #artist #ivorycoast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19a7HWy8Eg