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Skip to main content Currently Reading Family honors womans wish to be buried with cross she carried to San Antonio after escape from communist Hungary FacebookTwitterEmail Agnes Rosza displays a picture of a cross on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2021, that was carried by her aunt, Rose Helen Safran, when she escaped the communist forces that invaded Budapest in 1956. Safran and her husband, Stephen, became leaders of the Hungarian community in San Antonio.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada In the last months o...

ITHACA, NY -- In response to the pandemic, playwright Qui Nguyen (“Vietgone”) adapted his popular Dungeons & Dragons-set drama “She Kills Monsters” for virtual performance. The script, both zany and gentle, has a youthful exuberance and huge heart, making it popular on both high school and college campuses. When director Cynthia Henderson picked it last spring for Ithaca College’s Fall 2020 season, she was anticipating a live onstage version, and student scenic designer...

Two years from the cold-blooded murder of Lassana Cisse, his family in the Ivory Coast is calling for justice, as friends and family struggle to come to terms with the racially motivated assassination. To add to their pain, the coronavirus has further delayed the repatriation of Lassana’s body, with ports being closed to curb the pandemic. His cousin, Abdoulaye spoke to Times of Malta about a sense of “fatigue” that has blanketed the family over the past 24 months. “He was killed in th...

Ivory Coast is falling behind its vaccination schedule. Health workers fear thousands of shots could expire. Sam Bradpiece, Danielle Paquette © Diomande Ble Blonde/AP Culture Minister Raymonde Goudou Coffie receives a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on March 1. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Health leaders in Ivory Coast were thrilled when the first half-million coronavirus vaccines arrived in late February. But that excitement cooled to concern as the We...

Channels Television   Updated April 3, 2021 Amade Oueremi (C top), a former warlord accused of mass killings in western Ivory Coast in 2011, awaits for his trial to start at the high court in Abidjan on April 1, 2021. (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)     Odette Klahon took the witness stand, her burgundy red wrap a sign of mourning, then recounted the violence a decade ago that left her without her husband, her grandson and her left hand. “In the Carrefour neighbourhood, they didn’t waste any...

A decade on, women recount horrors of Ivory Coast massacres By Christophe KOFFI 2 HOURS AGO Amadé Oueremi (tee-shirt rayé), ancien chef de guerre et milicien accusé dassassinats massifs dans lOuest de la Côte dIvoire en 2011, arrive à son procès à Abidjan, sous escorte policière, le 1er avil 2021.. By SIA KAMBOU (AFP) Odette Klahon took the witness stand, her burgundy red wrap a sign of mourning, then recounted the violence a decade ago that left her without her husband...

Court ruling paves way for Gbagbos I.Coast homecoming AFP 4/1/2021 AFP © SIA KAMBOU Ten years after being forced from power, former president Laurent Gbagbo remains a deeply divisive figure in Ivory Coast Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo appears to be on a fast track for homecoming after being definitively acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes charges. The ruling on Wednesday ends a legal saga that had enmeshed Gbagbo, 75, for nearly a...

Press Release SENATORS UNANIMOUSLY VOTE TO GRANT CITIZENSHIP TO MARANON AND KOUAME The Senate on Monday passed, on third and final reading, two proposed measures granting citizenship to Spanish footballer Bienvenido Morejon Maranon and Ivorian cager Kakou Ange Franck Williams Kouame. Senator Richard J. Gordon sponsored Committee Report Nos. 188 and 189, recommending the passage of House Bills granting citizenship to Maranon and Kouame, respectively, and allowing them to play in international le...

3 Min Read ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Above-average rains mixed with sun last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions stood to boost the quality of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday. Farmers break cocoa pods at a cocoa farm in Soubre, Ivory Coast January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is in the dry season that runs from mid-November to March, when downpours are poor or scarce. Farmers said the October-to March ...