The 2010 11 Ivorian crisis was a political crisis in Ivory Coast which began after Laurent Gbagbo, the President of Ivory Coast since 2000, was proclaimed the winner of the Ivorian election of 2010, the first election in the country in 10 years.

Ivorian newspaper Nord Sud say he was released after 24 hours of detention by the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DTS).

What I've been doing from 14 to 17 was, I was assisting them collecting ivory tusk, meat and whatever they were killing, poaching, hunting in the forest, bring it in the main city to get access to the market.

The Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire (New Forces FNCI or FN) is a political coalition that was formed in December 2002, in the wake of the first peace accords of the Ivorian Civil War.

But if economists were confined to the ivory tower, we might be unbiased, but we would also be ignorant of practicalities and thus even less capable of predicting problems.

Though some scholars and thinkers are fit to be leaders of the people, a favorable environment is needed to coax them out of their ivory towers. To this end, an open minded, culturally literate, and ideas oriented head of state could play a pivotal role.

Managing editor of Ivorian newspaper Le Patriote, Charles Sanga, was arrested on January 31, 2012 after his newspaper revealed that the Constitutional Court of Côte d'Ivoire decided to annul results of the recent Parliamentary Elections in 11 districts.