Authorities say that a man from the Ivory Coast, who was in Germany illegally, was arrested this week when German police discovered that he was transporting cooked bats and unrefrigerated fish. The incident occurred in Aachen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia on the border of Belgium, on Monday morning. During a search of a van that had entered from Belgium, a federal police patrol found nearly 2,000... 

A 42-year-old Muslim man of African descent from Ivory Coast, who exerted a violent influence on four women and his wife, and 29 children in Nogaro in the Gers was indicted in Agen. He was placed in detention for acts of unprecedented violence. Since the revelation of the affair, the parents of students have been stunned. No one wants to comment on this sensitive matter. The few parents interviewed... 

Algerian football fans in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities celebrated their soccer team’s Africa Cup of Nations win by rioting, looting stores and wielding chainsaws in a night of chaos. Algerians poured out onto the streets following their team’s victory over Ivory Coast last night. Police were deployed to the center of Paris to keep order as vandals threw fireworks. One video even shows... 

Three teenage migrants were charged in Malta with seizing control of a merchant ship and using force and intimidation against the crew, which is considered a terrorist crime under Maltese law. One of the accused was identified by the court as Abdalla Bari, a 19-year-old from Guinea. The other two are a 15-year-old from Guinea and a 16-year-old from Ivory Coast, who could not be named because they... 

A 42-year-old man appeared in court this Monday for having voluntarily transmitted HIV. Three of his victims filed a complaint with the police. He told them love wasn’t made without confidence. Sometimes he also pretended to put a condom on but left it on the bedside table at the last moment. And when his partners became too suspicious, he even showed them a fake document proving that he wasn’t... 

Three of the world’s biggest food producers including Nestlé, have been indicted for using unpaid children to harvest cocoa in Ivory Coast. The US Supreme Court on Monday accused Nestlé, Archer-Daniels-Midland, and Cargill of aiding and abetting human rights violations by purchasing cocoa from Ivory Coast in full knowledge of the country’s child slavery problem. The ruling was made following... 

An 8-year-old boy has been crammed into a suitcase and smuggled across the border from North Africa, Spanish police say. The Ivory Coast boy named Abou was discovered on Thursday, when police at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, put the roller luggage bag through an X-ray scanner and found the silhouette of a young boy curled up inside the suitcase. “When they put the suitcase through the... 

A report by an international foundation on modern slavery has revealed that nearly 30 million people are enslaved across the globe. The index released by the Walk Free Foundation (WFF) on Thursday said the slaves are either trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labor, fall victims to debt bondage, or are even born into servitude. Almost half of these people are in India, where “by far... 

Many Israelis say the volume of African migration has become socially overwhelming, even though most live in areas also populated by other migrants, including Filipinos, Chinese and Nepalese workers. Israel has initiated the first stage of a controversial “emergency plan” aimed at interning and deporting an estimated 60,000 African immigrants. Officials believe the presence of the Africans poses... 

An injured Ivorian lies on the ground outside the UN building in Abidjan on December 20. At least 296 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations mission in the crisis-hit west African nation has said. At least 296 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations... 

The United Nations said on Wednesday it will ask the Security Council to approve up to 2,000 additional peacekeepers for Ivory Coast to help protect the man it says is the west African nation’s new president. “I expressed my intention to request more troops and I expect to formalize it in the coming days,” Alain Le Roy, the U.N. undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations,...