Country Profile: Cote D'Ivoire

Professional media organization in Cote d'Ivoire on July 16, 2010 issued an ultimatum to the Ivoirian authorities to free the three senior journalists of privately-owned daily, Le Noveau Courier newspaper being held for publishing a leaked report on corruption in the cocoa and coffee sector of the country.

Three senior journalists of privately-owned daily Le Noveau Courier newspaper in Cote d'Ivoire are being held by the Ivoirian police for refusing to reveal their sources of information on a leaked report of an alleged corruption in the cocoa and coffee sector that the newspaper published on July 13, 2010.

It is a very cold winter Friday afternoon in Johannesburg's Yeoville suburb, and the sound of drums reverberates around this centre of African immigration to South Africa. The drumming is coming from the 'Ivoirian House' and gives me a foretaste of what promises to be a great show of support from expatriate Ivoirians during the friendly match between Ivory Coast and Japan - the last one for 'The Elephants' before the kickoff of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Two journalists of privately-owned Abidjan-based L'Expression newspaper were on May 25, 2010 grilled by the Ivoirian police for a long period over a February 8 article that the newspaper carried on alleged casualties of a para-military group's clamp down on protesters in demonstrations in early February.