Topic: Ivory Coast

A re-trial on Wednesday got underway in Italy against Amanda Knox over a conviction of slander she received after she had wrongly accused a bar owner of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher.

Two people in Nigeria have been arrested and charged over the sexual extortion case of an Australian teenager who died by suicide, authorities said Monday.

Rising prices of raw cocoa could hurt the bottom line of chocolate manufacturers, who warned this week candy prices could rise as a result.

Italian energy company Eni said Monday it started production off the Ivory Coast in the Baleine oil and gas field, an accomplishment made less than two years after the initial discovery.

Forty-one migrants, including three children, died after a boat carrying them sank off Italy's Lampedusa Island in the Strait of Sicily.

The United States has partially suspended aid to Niger as a group of coup leaders faced a Sunday deadline issued by other West African states to relinquish power.

At least 951 migrants have died trying to reach Spain this year so far, according to a report from the Spanish rights group Ca-minando Fronteras Thursday.

The Justice Department issued a public safety alert on Monday about a tenfold rise in "sextortion schemes," for the first half of 2022, targeting teenaged boys in the United States.

Glencore Energy U.K. Ltd. has been ordered to pay $315 million in fines after an investigation discovered a far-reaching bribery scheme to obtain access to oil in Africa.

A prolonged drought in named tropical systems in the Atlantic Ocean could come to an end as August transitions to September, AccuWeather forecasters say.