UNSC lifts 12-year weapons embargo and asset freeze on Cote d’Ivoire

The United Nations Security Council has lifted a 12-year-old arms embargo on Cote d'Ivoire. It was also expected that the UN peacekeeping mission in the country will be renewed for a final year. The West African state has emerged from a decade-long crisis that culminated in a brief 2011 civil war to become a rising economic star. The UN arms embargo was imposed in 2004, after an initial civil war between 2002 and 2003.