Ivory Coast

BELGRADE - Chief-of-staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic has visited the members of the Serbian army engaged in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.

During his visit to Cyprus on Monday, Dikovic said that the Serbian army members are performing all tasks within this UN multinational operation in a highly professional way.

Silla Zelia, a 23-year-old from Ivory Coast, is stuck in Italy's largest migrant center with nowhere to go after her asylum application was twice rejected and she lost contact with her family in Abidjan.

"One can get stuck here for two years, three years," she said from the former U.S. Navy housing complex in the heart of Sicily. "It's not easy."

The headline could have read "Making Money Off Others' Misery", yet Italian daily La Repubblica has a migrant smuggler, arrested on Sicily recently, laughing about migrant-laden boats ferrying their human cargo across the Mediterranean to the "promise land", the European Union in this case.

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on April 16, as the crisis off southern Italy intensified. 

Forty-one more deaths were reported in a separate incident. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, while in Iran, offered to become a mediator in Syria and in Yemen. He said, ?Iraq is a place we are shedding tears at. More than 100,000 people have died there up to now. History was destroyed. Similarly, 300,000 people have died in Syria. I am not interested in the Shiite or Sunni in here. I am interested in the Muslims.

By Dalton Bennett & Shawn Pogatchnik

VELES, FYROM - This is the moment when Sandrine Koffi's dream of a new life in Europe ended - and her nightmare of an infant lost in the night began.

Stephane Layani, CEO of Semmaris, a business group that controls Rungis, a leading fresh produce wholesaler in the world, told AGERPRES in a recent interview that Romanians and French people are united by the fact that they know how to bring the pleasures of life around the table.

Photo credit: (c) stephanelayani.fr

The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations won by Ivory Coast in Equatorial Guinea Feb. 8 was full of controversy with disputed penalties and rioting supporters.

Pictures of a jagged broken mirror used as a missile by a rioter and players attempting to assault a referee in another knockout match involving the host nation were beamed around the world on television.

Rioting spectators forced a 34-minute stoppage in the African Nations Cup semifinal and several people were injured as Ghana eliminated hosts Equatorial Guinea with a 3-0 defeat on Feb. 5. 

Guinea qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals on Jan. 29 after a drawing of lots was required to separate them and Mali.
      
They will go through to a quarter-final on Sunday in Malabo against Group C winners Ghana while Mali go home.