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Working at giant snail's pace a boon for Ivorian farmers

They may weigh a maximum 500 grams and only grow to 10 centimetres (four inches) at most -- but farming of giant snails is proving big business in Ivory Coast

Top producer Ivory Coast fears for cocoa output after rains

"Thirty years I've been in cocoa -- and this is the worst season yet," said Siaka Sylla as he contemplated an almost empty warehouse at his cooperative in Ivory Coast, the world's top producer of the bean

Football: World Cup African qualifying schedule

Football: World Cup African qualifying results

Pogba, potions and impotence: the secret world of witch doctors in France

Footballers who fell under the spell of witch doctors

Former Ivorian PM Soro says has talks with Niger coup leader

Former Ivorian PM Soro says has talks with Niger coup leader

Former Ivorian prime minister Guillaume Soro said Monday he had an extensive talks with Niger's putsch leaders in Niamey, a day after announcing he was ending years of self-imposed exile

Ivory Coast ex-PM Guillaume Soro says ending exile

Nigeria's Bubu Ogisi, fashion 'harbinger' with African tales

Disaster survivors' tales grip Hollywood film fest

Disaster survivors' tales grip Hollywood film fest

106 nations to gather in 13th Sharjah Publishers Conference

Senegal awash in plastic from popular water sachets

Africa hears pledges but little action at IMF-World Bank talks

Pummelled by debt, poverty and natural disasters, African nations heard many pledges of support but saw little action at the first IMF-World Bank talks to be held on their soil since 1973

Russia to build nuclear power plant in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso's junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant to increase the energy supply to the Sahel country where less than a quarter of the population has access to electricity

Senegal awash in plastic from popular water sachets

Hosts Ivory Coast to face Nigeria in AFCON group

Nigeria, South Africa could face Morocco in AFCON group

Africa to get 'stronger voice' at IMF: Georgieva

Saharan Africa will have a "stronger voice" at the International Monetary Fund as it will get a third seat on the global lender's executive board, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva told AFP

After Niger coup, sanctions pain strikes at shutdown Benin border

France 'will not welcome migrants' from Lampedusa: interior minister

SBA to assemble industry experts during 13th edition of SIBF Publishers Conference

Coleman, Jackson shine as Lyles, Richardson denied in Eugene