Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.

Catherine Byaruhanga, presenter and correspondent for the BBC News Channel, speaks to Tidjane Thiam, the main opposition leader in the Ivory Coast.

E lections in Ivory Coast have a tendency to turn bloody. Disputes over the result of the presidential election in 2000 were ...

Five months before the presidential elections in Ivory Coast, the recently-formed opposition coalition, called CAP Côte ...

Former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam is to run for president in Ivory Coast's forthcoming election, his party has ...

Tidjane Thiam, a former international banker and the leader of Ivory Coast's main opposition party, has told the BBC that he will not give up his place on the presidential ballot without a fight.

An Ivory Coast court on Tuesday struck main opposition leader Tidjane ... Three other prominent figures, including former ...

Ivory Coast's main opposition party has called for "marches" outside courts on Thursday, six months ahead of a presidential election, in protest against the removal of its candidate from the ...

Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan has begun rebranding streets and boulevards that were named after its former colonial ...

Ivory Coast opposition leader Tidjane Thiam said on Wednesday he would fight on to run in the West African nation's presidential election due in October despite having been removed from the electoral ...