Stopwatch in hand, dozens of Ivory Coast students raced against the clock to design robots for the farms of the future in the ...

Ivory Coast, a country of 31m people in the continent’s west, is a rare exception. Devastated by two civil wars, one from 2002 to 2007 and one in 2010-11, it has since undergone a remarkable ...

“Ivory Coast is one of the few countries that still resist the terrorist threat in the Sahel,” said a U.N. official working in the country who was not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.

Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new terrorism hot spots and displacing millions.