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US
/æbɪˈdʒɑn/
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NOUN
- city recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast; largest city of the Ivory Coast
How To Use Abidjan In A Sentence
- Even while the military endgame played out in Abidjan, post-conflict development specialists were presumably drawing up plans for interventions such as disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, security sector reform, and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons. Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern
- Salomon Ugborugbo, 39, owned a local company whose trucks collected the eye-stinging waste offloaded from the Dutch-based company's ship and dumped it at 17 sites in the capital Abidjan including close to homes forcing thousands to flee. Market News
- Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara cordoned off the Abidjan residence of his rival Laurent Gbagbo on Friday as his government moved to restore water service in the war-ravaged city of Abidjan and prepare for the resumption of cocoa exports, the African country's main foreign-currency earner. Ivorian Opposition Strives for Normalcy
- Land convoys and helicopters bore Western evacuees to Yamoussoukro, where US military cargo planes waited to fly them to Abidjan, or neighbouring Ghana.
- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked President Sarkozy for what he called "urgent" military operations to silence mortars and rocket launchers that have been used against civilians and U.N. headquarters in Abidjan. French, UN Forces Join Fight Against Incumbent Ivory Coast President
- State Department spokesman Mark Toner says Gbagbo's continued efforts to force a result that he could not obtain at the ballot box show what he calls a "callous disregard for the welfare of the Ivorian people, who will again suffer amid renewed heavy fighting in Abidjan. Gbagbo Forces Deny Attacking UN, Ouattara Compound
- In Abidjan, Côte d' Ivoire, and other parts of francophone Africa, they are known as pharmacies par terre (roadside pharmacies).
- Joel Kangha is Search for Common Ground's Program Coordinator in Abidjan. Joel Kangha: Ivory Coast at a Crossroads
- Satellite photos illustrate the same reality: the entire stretch of coast from Abidjan eastward to Lagos in Nigeria is one burgeoning megalopolis.
- Abidjan was thrown into turmoil because of a protest by taxi drivers.