Tensions are rising in the country ahead of October polls, with many wary of a repeat of election violence seen in 2011.

Parties led by former Credit Suisse AG Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam and ex-President Laurent Gbagbo agreed to form ...

The two opposition parties excluded from the forthcoming presidential election in Ivory Coast have formed an alliance ...

Thousands protested in Abidjan after opposition leader Tidjane Thiam was barred from Ivory Coast's presidential race, ...

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan to demand the reinstatement on the electoral list of ...

Four prominent opposition figures in Côte d'Ivoire have been excluded from the final electoral list, leaving them ineligible ...

Tidjane Thiam, leader of Ivory Coast's main opposition party, has been removed from the electoral list ahead of the October 25 presidential election. On Tuesday, April 22, the court ruled that ...

Tidjane Thiam, a former CEO of Credit Suisse and the main opposition leader in Ivory Coast, has been excluded from the country’s final list of presidential candidates. Thiam and three ...

Ivory Coast former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon said he is seeking to represent the opposition PDCI party in October's ...

Four major opposition figures will be unable to contest Ivory Coast's October presidential election, the country's electoral commission announced Wednesday, having been struck from the final voter ...

Ivory Coast opposition leader and former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam has been excluded from the country's final list of presidential candidates, rendering him ineligible to contest an October ...

By Michael J. de la Merced Tidjane Thiam made Credit Suisse profitable again. But the Swiss rejected him as an outsider, and a sudden scandal took him down. By Kate Kelly Pierre-Olivier Bouée ...