2020 in Ivory Coast
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Events in the year 2020 in Ivory Coast.
Incumbents
- President: Alassane Ouattara
- Prime Minister: Amadou Gon Coulibaly
Events
January
- January – Groups are announced for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification in October. Cameroon and Ivory Coast will face off.[1]
- 14 January – Authorities say they have rescued 137 children from Benin, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo, aged 6 to 17, who were the victims of traffickers and groomed to work on cocoa plantations or in prostitution.[2]
- 24 January – Tens of thousands are left homeless as homes in shanty town are demolished near Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport.[3]
- 31 January – Authorities in Côte d'Ivoire oppose the release of former president Laurent Gbagbo by the International Criminal Court (ICC) because his return would destabilize the country.[4]
February
April
- 28 April - Opposition politician Guillaume Soro was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison on charges of embezzling public funds and money laundering.[6]
- 29 April - Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, after the tribunal ordered the government to suspend an arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro.[7]
June
- 11 June – At least ten soldiers are killed and six wounded in an attack in Kafolo, near the border with Burkina Faso.[8]
October
- 31 October – Scheduled date for the 2020 Ivorian presidential election
Deaths
- 5 January – Issiaka Ouattara, soldier (b. 1967)[9]
- 19 January – Allah Thérèse, traditional singer[10]
- 27 January – James Houra, 67, painter[11]
- 16 February – Erickson Le Zulu, 41, disc jockey; liver cirrhosis[12]
- 20 April – Marie Rose Guiraud, 75, dancer and choreographer[13]
See also
References
- Cameroon drawn to face Ivory Coast in World Cup qualifying AP, 21 Jan 2020
- Cote d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast Rescues 137 Child Trafficking Victims
- Ivory Coast demolitions: Shantytown near airport cleared by Laura Burdon-Manley, Al Jazeera, 24 Jan 2020
- Cote d'Ivoire: Government Says Gbagbo's Return Would Destabilize the Ivory Coast By Wairagala Wakabi, allAfrica, 31 JANUARY 2020
- Africa: SWEDD 2 kicks off as the SWEDD initiative goes to scale
- Larson, Krista (April 28, 2020). "I. Coast Opposition Leader Sentenced to 20 Years in Absentia". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020.
- de Bassompierre, Leanne; Mieu, Baudelaire (April 29, 2020). "Ivory Coast Withdraws From African Human Rights Court". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on April 30, 2020.
Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Human Rights and Peoples Court, a week after the tribunal ordered the West African nation to suspend an arrest warrant against presidential hopeful Guillaume Soro, who on Tuesday was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
- "At least 10 soldiers killed in attack on Ivory Coast border post". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- "Issiaka Ouattara, from rebel chief to controversial general". theafricareport.com. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- "Le président Alassane Ouattara attristé par la mort d'Allah Thérèse". afrique-sur7.fr (in French). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- Décès de James Houra : L’un des arbres tutélaires de la peinture ivoirienne s’est couché (in French)
- Décès en France de Erickson le Zulu, l'ex star du Coupé décalé (in French)
- Décès de Marie Rose Guiraud : Meiway est inconsolable (in French)
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