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Abidjan is the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire and is one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa. [1]

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Abidjan Department

Abidjan Department is a department of Ivory Coast.

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Abidjan Metro

The Abidjan Metro (French: Métro d'Abidjan) is a rapid transit network serving the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan whose construction started in November 2017,http://www.jeuneafrique.com/498287/economie/cote-divoire-lances-par-ouattara-et-macron-les-travaux-du-metro-dabidjan-seront-acheves-en-2022/ with the beginning of passenger service expected in 2022-2023.

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Abidjan Transport Company

The Abidjan Transport Company (Société des transports Abidjanais, abbreviated SOTRA) is the public transit provider for Abidjan, Ivory Coast and its suburbs.

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Abobo

Abobo is a northern suburb of Abidjan and one of the 10 urban communes of this city in Ivory Coast.

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Address (geography)

An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers.

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Adjamé

Adjamé is one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Adzopé

Adzopé is the town in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Africa Cup of Nations

The Total Africa Cup of Nations, officially CAN (Coupe d'Afrique des Nations), also referred to as African Cup of Nations, or AFCON, is the main international association football competition in Africa.

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Africa Sports d'Abidjan

Africa Sports d'Abidjan is an Ivorian multi-sports club founded in 1947 and based in Abidjan.

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African Cup Winners' Cup

The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederations Cup.

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African Development Bank

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution.

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African French

African French (français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of a French language spoken by an estimated 120 million people in Africa spread across 24 francophone countries.

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Agboville

Agboville is the town in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

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Air Afrique

Air Afrique was a Pan-African airline, that was mainly owned by many West African countries for most of its history.

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Air Ivoire

Air Ivoire was an airline headquartered in the Immueble EECI in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Akan people

The Akan are a meta-ethnicity predominantly speaking Central Tano languages and residing in the southern regions of the former Gold Coast region in what is today the nation of Ghana.

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Alépé

Alépé is a town in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

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Alfortville

Alfortville is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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AllAfrica.com

AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.

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Alpha Blondy

Alpha Blondy (born Seydou Koné; 1 January 1953 in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast) is a reggae singer and international recording artist.

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Amina (magazine)

Amina is a monthly French-language woman's magazine aimed black women in Africa, Europe, the Antilles and North America.

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Anyama

Anyama is a city in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

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ASEC Mimosas

The Association Sportive des Employés de Commerce Mimosas, literally Mimosas Commerce Employees' Sporting Association, is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Attécoubé

Attécoubé (Ebrié: Abidjan Te) is a suburb of and one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Attié language

Attié (Akie, Akye, Atche, Atie, Atshe) is a language of uncertain classification within the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family.

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Autonomous Port of Abidjan

The Autonomous Port of Abidjan is a commercial port at Treichville, in southern Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Ébrié Lagoon

The Ébrié Lagoon lies in Ivory Coast, separated for almost all of its length from the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow coastal strip.

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Électricité de France

Électricité de France S.A. (EDF; Electricity of France) is a French electric utility company, largely owned by the French state.

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Île Boulay

The name of Île Boulay is applied an island in the Ébrié Lagoon in Ivory Coast.

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Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Banco National Park

Banco National Park is a national park in Côte d'Ivoire located along Highway North in the district of Attécoubé (Abidjan).

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Baoulé language

Baoulé, also called Baule or Bawule, is a Central Tano language spoken in Ivory Coast.

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Barclays

Barclays plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in London.

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Bété language

Bété is a language cluster of Kru languages in Ivory Coast, in Africa.

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Bétika

Bétika (born Brigitte Houedji in Grand-Bassam) is a singer and actor from Ivory Coast.

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Benguela Current

The Benguela Current is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Bergamot orange

Citrus bergamia, the bergamot orange (pronounced), is a fragrant citrus fruit the size of an orange, with a yellow or green color similar to a lime, depending on ripeness.

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Bingerville

Bingerville is a town in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

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BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas is a French international banking group.

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Bolloré

Bolloré is a French transportation company headquartered in Puteaux, on the western outskirts of Paris, France.

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Bouaké

Bouaké (or Bwake) is the second-largest city in Ivory Coast, with a population of 536,189 (2014 census).

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Bouar

Bouar is a market town in the western Central African Republic, lying on the main road from Bangui (437 km) to the frontier with Cameroon (210 km).

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Boulogne-Billancourt

Boulogne-Billancourt (often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France.

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Bouygues

Bouygues S.A. is an industrial group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brofodoumé

Brofodoumé is a sub-prefecture in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

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BRVM

The Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières SA ("Regional Securities Exchange SA") or BRVM, is a regional stock exchange serving the following west African countries.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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CAF Champions League

The CAF Champions League is an annual continental club football competition run by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

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CAF Super Cup

The CAF Super Cup (also known as African Super Cup or for sponsorhip reasons Total CAF Super Cup) is an annual African association football competition contested between the winners of the Total CAF Champions League and the Total CAF Confederation Cup.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; République centrafricaine, or Centrafrique) is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Centre national de la recherche scientifique

The French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the largest governmental research organisation in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.

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CFA franc

The CFA franc (in French: franc CFA, or colloquially franc) is the name of two currencies used in parts of West and Central African countries which are guaranteed by the French treasury.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France.

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Chemical industry

The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Christian-Jaque

Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker.

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Citibank

Citibank is the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

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Cocody

Cocody, is a suburb of and one of the 10 urban communes of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Colony

In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.

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Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme

The national federations of the UCI form confederations by continent.

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Congolese rumba

Congolese rumba, also known as Rumba Lingala, is a popular genre of dance music that originated in the Congo basin during the 1940s, with strong similarities to Cuban son.

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Constitutional Council (Ivory Coast)

The Constitutional Council (French: Conseil constitutionnel) is a judicial body in the government of Ivory Coast that is patterned after the Constitutional Council of France.

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Corniche

A corniche is a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising on one side and falling away on the other.

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Coupé-Décalé

Coupé-Décalé is a type of popular dance music originating from Côte d'Ivoire and the Ivorian diaspora in Paris, France.

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Crédit Lyonnais

Crédit Lyonnais is a historic French bank.

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Culture Palace of Abidjan

Culture Palace of Abidjan (Palais de la Culture d'Abidjan) is a temple of culture in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire).

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Dabou

Dabou is a port town in southern Ivory Coast.

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Dakar

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

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Danish Meteorological Institute

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate.

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Daoukro

Daoukro is a town in east-central Ivory Coast.

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Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire – African Democratic Rally

The Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire — African Democratic Rally (Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire — Rassemblement Démocratique Africain; abbreviated PDCI-RDA) is a political party in Côte d'Ivoire.

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Dentistry

Dentistry is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.

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Departments of Ivory Coast

Departments of Ivory Coast (départements de Côte d'Ivoire, also known as collectivités territoriale) are currently the third-level administrative subdivision of the country.

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Dermatology

Dermatology (from ancient Greek δέρμα, derma which means skin and λογία, logia) is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin, nails, hair and its diseases.

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Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Office, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational or agricultural purposes.

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Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from one state or an organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation officially in the receiving state.

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Districts of Ivory Coast

The districts of Ivory Coast (districts de Côte d’Ivoire) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of the country.

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DJ Arafat

DJ Arafat or Arafat Muana, born January 26, 1986 as Ange Didier Houon), an ex-disc jockey in "Shangaï" on Princess Street (Rue Princesse, located in Yopougon, Côte d'Ivoire), is a DJ and singer from Côte d'Ivoire who makes music of the Coupé-Décalé genre. DJ Arafat is son of the Tina Glamour, an artist from Cote d'Ivoire and is the son of the deceased Pierre Houon. He is one of the most popular African artist in Francophone countries around the world.

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Djibouti

Djibouti (جيبوتي, Djibouti, Jabuuti, Gabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Dyula language

Jula (or Dyula, Dioula) is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali.

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Ebrié language

Ebrié, or Cama (Caman, Kyama, Tchaman, Tsama, Tyama), is spoken in Ivory Coast and Ghana.

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Economic Community of West African States

The Economic Community of West African States, also known as ECOWAS, is a regional economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa.

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Fédération Ivoirienne de Rugby

Fédération Ivoirienne de Rugby is the governing body for rugby union in the Ivory Coast.

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Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (18 October 1905 – 7 December 1993), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux (The Old One), was the first President of Ivory Coast (1960 to 1993), serving for more than three decades until his death.

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Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport

Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, also known as Port Bouët Airport, is located south east of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Five-a-side football

Five-a-side game on astroturf pitch, Singapore Five-a-side football is a variation of association football, in which each team fields five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper).

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Food processing

Food processing is the transformation of cooked ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms.

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François Amichia

François Albert Amichia (born October 4, 1952, in Abidjan) is an Ivorian politician.

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François Mitterrand

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French statesman who was President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office of any French president.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fraternité Matin

Fraternité Matin (ISSN: 1024-2015, OCLC: 17869492) or Frat' Mat' is an Ivorian newspaper headquartered in Abidjan.

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French Sudan

French Sudan (Soudan français; السودان الفرنسي) was a French colonial territory in the federation of French West Africa from around 1880 until 1960, when it became the independent state of Mali.

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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut (GI, "Goethe Institute") is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations.

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Grand-Bassam

Grand-Bassam is a town in south-eastern Ivory Coast, lying east of Abidjan.

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Grand-Lahou

Grand-Lahou is a coastal town in southern Ivory Coast.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

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Grid plan

The grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, fieldball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.

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Henri Duparc (director)

Henri Duparc (born December 23, 1941 in Forécariah; died April 18, 2006 in Paris) was an Ivorian film director and writer.

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Henri Konan Bédié Bridge

Henri Konan Bédié Bridge, also known as the HKB Bridge or Third Bridge, is a road bridge and expressway linking the north and south of Abidjan.

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Hinterland

Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).

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Holcim

Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates company.

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Hortense Aka-Anghui

Hortense Aka-Anghui (December 18, 1933 – September 30, 2017) was an Ivorian politician.

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Houphouët-Boigny Bridge

Houphouët-Boigny Bridge is a road and rail bridge over the Ébrié Lagoon which links the two halves of the city Abidjan in Ivory Coast.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Institut de recherche pour le développement

The French Research Institute for Development (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD) is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Foreign Affairs.

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency dealing with labour problems, particularly international labour standards, social protection, and work opportunities for all.

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of "189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world." Formed in 1945 at the Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international payment system.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Ivorian Football Federation

The Ivorian Football Federation (Fédération Ivoirienne de Football, FIF) is the governing body of football in Ivory Coast and is in charge of the Ivory Coast national team and other footballing matters in the country.

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Ivorian Popular Front

The Ivorian Popular Front (Front populaire ivoirien; abbreviated FPI) is a centre-left, democratic socialist and social democratic political party in Ivory Coast.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.

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Ivory Coast national basketball team

The Ivorian Coast national basketball team are the men's basketball side that represent Ivory Coast in international competition.

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Jacques Morel (actor)

Jacques Morel (29 May 1922 in Paris – 9 April 2008 in Paris) was a French film and television actor.

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Jacqueville

Jacqueville is a coastal town in southern Ivory Coast.

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Jean Lefebvre

Jean Marcel Lefebvre (October 3, 1919 in Valenciennes, Nord, FranceSome sources indicate he was born in 1922. – July 9, 2004 in Marrakesh, Morocco) was a French film actor.

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Jean Marais

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, also known as Jean Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor, writer, director and sculptor.

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Jean-Bédel Bokassa

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996), also known as Bokassa I of Central Africa and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, was the ruler of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d'état on 1 January 1966 until overthrown in a subsequent coup (supported by France) on 20 September 1979.

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Jean-Marc Guillou

Jean-Marc Guillou (born December 20, 1945 in Bouaye, Loire-Atlantique) is a French ex-footballer and current trainer, who played at the 1978 World Cup.

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Jeunesse Club d'Abidjan

Jeunesse Club d'Abidjan (JC Abidjan) is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan.

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Joseph Gallieni

Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 – 27 May 1916) was a French soldier, active for most of his career as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kinshasa

Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville (Léopoldville or Dutch)) is the capital and the largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Koumassi

Koumassi is a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Krumen people

The Krumen (also Kroumen, Kroomen) is an ethnic group living mostly along the coast of Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire.

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Kumasi

Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie and usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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Las Palmas Complex

The Las Palmas Complex is an archaeological pattern recognized primarily on the basis of mortuary customs in the Cape region of Baja California Sur, Mexico.

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Laurent Gbagbo

Laurent Gbagbo, FPI website.

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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (لبنان; Lebanese pronunciation:; Liban), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies.

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Libreville

Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, in western central Africa.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Liselotte Pulver

Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress.

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List of national museums

A national museum is a museum maintained by a state.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Magic System

Magic System is an Ivorian musical group from Abidjan.

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Mahogany

Mahogany is a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Mandé peoples

Mandé is a family of ethnic groups in Western Africa who speak any of the many related Mande languages of the region.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Mango

Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit.

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Mapouka

Mapouka (also macouka) is a traditional dance from the Dabou area of southeast Côte d'Ivoire that originated with the Aizi, Alladian and Avikam people.

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Marcory

Marcory is a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Meiway

Frederic Desire Ehui, best known as Meiway (born 17 March 1962 in Grand Bassam), is a singer from the Ivory Coast.

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Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing.

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Michel Bohiri

Michel Bohiri is an Ivorian actor.

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Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil-rights activist.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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N'Djamena

N’Djamena (N'Djaména; انجمينا Injamīnā) is the capital and largest city of Chad.

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Nancy Holloway

Nancy Holloway (born Nancy Brown; December 11, 1932, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American jazz, pop and soul singer who was popular in France during the 1960s.

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National Library of Ivory Coast

National Library of Ivory Coast (Bibliothèque Nationale de Côte d'Ivoire) is located in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Nayanka Bell

Nayanka Bell (born 1963 in Agboville, Côte d'Ivoire)Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books,, p.23 is an Ivorian singer who has released several albums, the earliest in 1984.

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Ndombolo

Ndombolo is a Congolese music genre and dance style, also popular in other African countries such as Kenya and Madagascar.

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Niamey

Niamey is the capital and largest city of the West African country Niger.

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Niger

Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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Notre Voie

Notre Voie (formerly known as La Voie) is an Ivorian newspaper founded in 1991.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Oil refinery

Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.

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Optometry

Optometry is a health care profession which involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities as well as the medical diagnosis and management of eye disease.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou (Mossi) is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.

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Paperboard

Paperboard is a thick paper-based material.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pasteur Institute

The Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines.

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Pediatrics

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents.

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Philippe Clay

Philippe Clay (March 7, 1927 – December 13, 2007), born Philippe Mathevet, was a French mime artist, singer and actor.

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Pineapple

The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.

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Plateau, Ivory Coast

Plateau is the central business district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Plywood

Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.

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Pontault-Combault

Pontault-Combault is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Giovanni Paolo II; Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła;; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Port-Bouët

Port-Bouët is a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Race track

A race track (or "racetrack", "racing track" or "racing circuit") is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing).

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Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirienne

Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI) is the publicly owned radio and television authority of Côte d'Ivoire.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Rally of the Republicans

The Rally of the Republicans (Rassemblement des Républicains; abbreviated RDR) is a liberal party in Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire).

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Refining

Refining (also perhaps called by the mathematical term affining) is the process of purification of a (1) substance or a (2) form.

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Riviera

Riviera,, is an Italian word which means "coastline", ultimately derived from Latin ripa, through Ligurian rivea.

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Robert Beugré Mambé

Robert Beugré Mambé (born 1 January 1952) is an Ivorian civil engineer and politician.

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Robert Dalban

Robert Dalban (born Gaston Barré; 19 July 1903 in Celles-sur-Belle, Deux-Sèvres – 3 April 1987 in Paris) was a French actor.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan (Abidianen(sis)) is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Satellite FC Abidjan

Satellite FC is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Second Abidjan Bridge

Second Abidjan Bridge is a road bridge over the Ébrié Lagoon which links the two halves of the city of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire.

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Settler

A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area.

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Sikensi

Sikensi is a town in southeastern Ivory Coast.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Sitarail

Sitarail is a private company that has the concession to operate railway lines formerly operated by the government.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.

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Soap

Soap is the term for a salt of a fatty acid or for a variety of cleansing and lubricating products produced from such a substance.

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Songon

Songon is a town in southeastern Ivory Coast.

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Soukous

Soukous (from French secouer, "to shake") is a popular genre of dance music from the Congo Basin.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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St. Paul's Cathedral, Abidjan

St Paul's Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Paul d'Abidjan) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the city of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Stade d'Abidjan

Stade d'Abidjan is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan.

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Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, nicknamed Le Félicia, is a multi-purpose stadium, which can host football, rugby union and athletics, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Stade Municipal d'Abidjan

Stade Municipal d'Abidjan is a multi-use stadium in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Stade Robert Champroux

Stade Robert Champroux is a multi-use stadium in Marcory, in a suburb of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Stella Club d'Adjamé

Stella Club d'Adjamé is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan.

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Sub-prefectures of Ivory Coast

Sub-prefectures of Ivory Coast (sous-préfectures de Côte d'Ivoire) are the fourth-level administrative subdivisions of the country.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Tchaman

The Tchaman or Ébrié are an Akan people living in the Abidjan region of Côte d'Ivoire.

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Temple (LDS Church)

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord.

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Theobroma cacao

Theobroma cacao, also called the cacao tree and the cocoa tree, is a small (tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae, native to the deep tropical regions of the Americas.

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Tianjin

Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.

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Tiassalé

Tiassalé is a town in southern Ivory Coast.

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Tiken Jah Fakoly

Tiken Jah Fakoly (born 23 June 1968) is an Ivorian reggae singer.

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Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic (République Togolaise), is a sovereign state in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north.

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Tom-tom drum

A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.

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Treichville

Treichville is a neighborhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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Tshala Muana

Élisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay, alias Tshala Muana, (Lubumbashi, May 13, 1958) is a singer and dancer from Congo-Kinshasa.

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Tuna

A tuna is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a sub-grouping of the mackerel family (Scombridae).

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Tunisia

Tunisia (تونس; Berber: Tunes, ⵜⵓⵏⴻⵙ; Tunisie), officially the Republic of Tunisia, (الجمهورية التونسية) is a sovereign state in Northwest Africa, covering. Its northernmost point, Cape Angela, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia's population was estimated to be just under 11.93 million in 2016. Tunisia's name is derived from its capital city, Tunis, which is located on its northeast coast. Geographically, Tunisia contains the eastern end of the Atlas Mountains, and the northern reaches of the Sahara desert. Much of the rest of the country's land is fertile soil. Its of coastline include the African conjunction of the western and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Basin and, by means of the Sicilian Strait and Sardinian Channel, feature the African mainland's second and third nearest points to Europe after Gibraltar. Tunisia is a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic. It is considered to be the only full democracy in the Arab World. It has a high human development index. It has an association agreement with the European Union; is a member of La Francophonie, the Union for the Mediterranean, the Arab Maghreb Union, the Arab League, the OIC, the Greater Arab Free Trade Area, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, the African Union, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77; and has obtained the status of major non-NATO ally of the United States. In addition, Tunisia is also a member state of the United Nations and a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Close relations with Europe in particular with France and with Italy have been forged through economic cooperation, privatisation and industrial modernization. In ancient times, Tunisia was primarily inhabited by Berbers. Phoenician immigration began in the 12th century BC; these immigrants founded Carthage. A major mercantile power and a military rival of the Roman Republic, Carthage was defeated by the Romans in 146 BC. The Romans, who would occupy Tunisia for most of the next eight hundred years, introduced Christianity and left architectural legacies like the El Djem amphitheater. After several attempts starting in 647, the Muslims conquered the whole of Tunisia by 697, followed by the Ottoman Empire between 1534 and 1574. The Ottomans held sway for over three hundred years. The French colonization of Tunisia occurred in 1881. Tunisia gained independence with Habib Bourguiba and declared the Tunisian Republic in 1957. In 2011, the Tunisian Revolution resulted in the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, followed by parliamentary elections. The country voted for parliament again on 26 October 2014, and for President on 23 November 2014.

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UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

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United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network.

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United Nations Office for Project Services

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, dedicated to implementing projects for the United Nations System, international financial institutions, governments and other partners around the world.

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United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire

The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)(Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d'Ivoire, ONUCI) is a peacekeeping mission whose objective is "to facilitate the implementation by the Ivorian parties of the peace agreement signed by them in January 2003" (which aimed to end the Ivorian Civil War).

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United Nations Population Fund

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN organization.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

The Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (previously University of Cocody-Abidjan, fr.: Université de Cocody or Université de Cocody-Abidjan UCA) is a university in the Cocody section of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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West African Development Bank

The West African Development Bank - WADB (fr. Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement - BOAD / pt. Banco de Desenvolvimento do Oeste Africano - BDOA) is an international Multilateral Development Bank established in 1973 to serve the nations of Francophone and Lusophone West Africa.

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Wobé language

Wobé (Ouobe) is a Kru language spoken in Ivory Coast.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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Yamoussoukro

Yamoussoukro is the political capital and administrative capital of Ivory Coast and an autonomous district of the country.

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Yellow fever

Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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Yopougon

Yopougon, also known colloquially as Yop City, is a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Zoblazo

Zoblazo is a musical style from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, created in the early 1990s.

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Zouglou

Zouglou is a dance oriented style of music originated from Côte d'Ivoire during the mid-1990s.

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2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump

The 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump was a health crisis in Ivory Coast in which a ship registered in Panama, the Probo Koala, chartered by the Singaporean-based oil and commodity shipping company Trafigura Beheer BV, offloaded toxic waste to an Ivorian waste handling company which disposed of it at the port of Abidjan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abidjan

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