Since February 1, Cote d’Ivoire is experiencing an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage implemented by the electricity utility company to avoid total blackout of the power system. As a result people can spend up to 8 hours (sometimes more) without electricity.
At our IndéniéBlog meeting on Friday 5, we were about to open a new member’s email addresses (fundamental information in the

In this post, you will find a list of links to information and resources that have been useful to me recently. I hope you will like them.

Light Box Image Viewer (for blogger) - This is the widget I use on this blog to give readers the possibility to enlarge picture thumbnails published as shown in this post. What makes Light Box amazing is hat it is lightweight. Hence, with a fast internet

Do you remember the photo I published showing women announcing the 2010 yams festival in Abengourou? Well the event took place as announced but unfortunately, I could not attend it because of a loaded schedule.

However, you can enjoy many extra nice pictures of the event on two sources I know, namely:
Royaumeindenie.org, the official web portal of the Indénié Kingdom, where are published many

For me, February 2010 started with my voice over the waves of a show known as "Radio Avenue Web". This show is part of the well known Avenue225.com web portal. Avenue225.com is a clean example of citizen journalism with the aim to talk about things that happen daily in Cote d'Ivoire. The portal is run by a team of dynamic volunteers among whom the famous Ivorian blogger "Yoro".


Check out my

The 2010 edition of the Yam Festival in Abengourou will start on January 29 at 2pm. This information was published on the Indénié kingdom's twitter account on January 7, but while I was leaving for Abidjan on Friday 22, the event was being re-announced by women (picture below) moving in the streets of Abengourou. Nobody nor vehicle ought to have come close to these women otherwise would have

JCI Cote d’Ivoire’s 2010 activities promise to be worth participating. At 37, Dr TEHE Guy Damien made his first speech as the 37th National President of this great organisation highly recognised by the State with over 20 local organisations throughout the territory. 2010 Local Presidents, dressed in their best traditional outfits did not miss this event and here are 3 presidents (out of many

The 2010 African Nation Cup (ANC) in Angola is not helping Abengourou bloggers meet like it is the case with those in Bamako who tweet the encounters live from a cyber café, under the leadership of Boukary Kanté. Here, it is hard to meet, especially on a day when Cote d’Ivoire or Cameroon is playing. However, on Thursday 21, though the Indomitable Lions had a game, we met for up to 1 hour.At the

Cross section of the crowd at Place de la Solidarité* in Abengourou, watching the match between Cote d'Ivoire and Algeria on January 24.Since the beginning of the 2010 African Nations Cup (ANC), Orange (mobile phone operator) shows all the encounters of the competition on a wide screen.*Solidarity Square

While JCI World President Roland Kwemain was giving the meaning "change" in Tulsa (USA), Mathieu Kouame Yao was solemnly being inaugurated as 2010 President of JCI Abengourou on Saturday, January 18 at the Abengourou City Hall under the chairmanship of Senator ANON Leopold, Préfect of the Region of the Moyen-Comoé. The event was sponsored by Senator N'DA Edoukou Bernhardt MP for Abengourou. Both

From a distance over 3,000Km from Cabinda (Angola), this Abengourou-based supporter of the Ivorian Elephants is appropriately dressed and ready to watch his team play against Burkina Faso.While confidently waiting for 4pm (local time at which the match will start), he moves about selling DVDs.<!--google_ad_client = "pub-9199453903524075"; 300x250, created 11/01/10 */google_ad_slot = "1504578217