Ivory Coast is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast has a population of 26,378,285 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Since the death of the country’s strong man Félix Houphouët-Boignys in 1993, a long period of political unrest followed, in which politicians played on ethnic contradictions for their own purposes. In 2002, civil war broke out, which in practice divided the…
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Health care Vaccinations Vaccination needed receipt required Eat Drink 4 – malaria 3 – Typhoid & Polio Yes – cholera 2 yellow fever 1 Overview Medical care in the country cannot be compared to Europe and is often problematic in terms of technology, equipment and/or hygiene. Abidjan, on the other hand, is still the medical reference center for West Africa, despite the emigration of specialists, even if the standard is…
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Ellen Sirleaf is not an American Liberian. She is half Gola, a quarter Kru (original ethnic groups) and a quarter German. She was born in 1938 in the capital Monrovia and was allowed to go to high school. She got married and had 4 sons who the family took care of when she went to business college in the USA. Later she studied economics and took a master’s degree in…
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The approximately 3300 km² national park in the south-west of the Ivory Coast is one of the last large rainforest areas in West Africa according to findjobdescriptions. It is home to around 150 endemic plant species and numerous mammal species including monkeys, chimpanzees, giant pangolin, bush pigs, Jentink and yellow-bridged ducks, pygmy hippopotamus, African buffalo and forest elephants. Tai National Park: Facts Official title: Taï National Park Natural monument originally…
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