- Abidjan Travel Report Dated Added: Wed Apr 09 2008 Submitted by: Anon
This is a cracker.
If you're single, traveling light and are happy to stay in clean but cheap-end place then when in Abidjan check out the "old" Hotel Des Sports.
Despite being in the guidebooks the hotel part of this place was closed down in 2005/6. However the "Bar Des Sports" is downstairs and open for business as usual. It's a bit like an open fronted cafe type place serving really good cold beer (lager) in what is otherwise a swelteringly hot subtropical humid Mediterranean City supplanted in the middle of West Africa. I went in late evening (8-30pm) on a weekday and naively asked after the officially closed Hotel Des Sports. At first the barman just told me it's shut but then his colleague said they had a room spare, although it is officially closed! I was guided through the back, where there's a small tree-lined courtyard and up the steep staircase adjacent to my "room" for the night.
For what it was worth it was cheap (15,000 CFA) and being tired I kipped up on bed. No sooner had I put my feet up then I heard the clicking of high heels outside my door!! A girls voice started getting ever closer to the door...and sure enough a sharp knock followed. She came in (a 7) started talking something incomprehensible in French "at" me, proceeded to sit next to me on bed, take her sari off and we had a session (with protection!) on bed. Went out for drink later that night in a local bar actually under one of the two road/rail bridges crossing the lagoon from Le Plateau to Treichville and straight back to bed afterwards: 5 positions, 4 hours non-stop (Ivoriennes love doggy, but no anal!). As we finished I could see the first rays of sunshine through the cheap French curtains. No money was mentioned at any time and none given!
It turns out the "old" Hotel Des Sports have a couple of rooms above the leafy cool courtyard and almost always one has a girl in it who's on the lookout for action!
Have fun, enjoy, wear protection and stay as far away from those two bridges across the Lagoon as possible (they look innocent but have the highest violent mugging rate on entire continent - at least at time of writing) (Review # 23022)
- Abidjan Escort Review Dated Added: Tue Apr 03 2007 Submitted by: KT
I was in Abidjan for business. I have stayed in Abidjan, Zone 4. Zone 4 is known as the one of the best zones for entertainment. Since when you are not a local black guy it is quite dangerous for you to visit bars or some places unless you have a guide, a driver from a local company or local friends.
If you have nobody guiding the Golden Hotel is the best place to visit. The hotel is serving as a nice hotel also (I have stayed there for 10 days). Also it has rooms to rent for 1 - 2 hours. All taxi drivers know that and it takes at most 500 - 1000 Francs (1-3 USD) to get there from any hotel. The girls are local and only for 5000 Francs (10 USD). Of course not the best. But it is a nice experience to go. Because of the region is one of the world's highest AIDS risk, always go safe. (Review # 18097)
- Street Action Dated Added: Mon Aug 08 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
A bizarre tale of Cote dIvoire, as follows. Our travails! [Late July, 2005] * Freed Nigerian girls’ tales of woes in prostitution syndicate’s hands in Abidjan - RETURN of prodigal daughters! TWO Nigerian girls, Loveth Ebruke and Loveth Willy Akpore, who were feared missing in Abidjan where they were ferried to, last month, for prostitution by a Nigerian-based syndicate astonishingly returned back to Nigeria, Monday, with tales of melancholy. Four of them were enticed from Warri, Delta State by the syndicate which promised them jobs in Austria -- but Hope Osioyibo and Unagba Elohor, as Sunday Vanguard exclusively revealed last week, were brought back following the intervention of a Warri-based human rights group, the Human Rights Defenders Organization of Nigeria (HURDON) which contacted the Ambassador of Nigeria to Cote d’ Ivoire, his Cote d’ Ivoire counterpart in Nigeria as well as other human rights organizations in the country, Ghana, Togo and, Cote d’ Ivoire. The families of the girls who were taken on the white slave traffic raised an alarm when the linchpin of the prostitution band, bizarrely, escaped from the custody of the Nigeria Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Warri, and that was how the whole thing blew open. The Loveths spoke to Sunday Vanguard, Tuesday morning, in Warri, less than 24 hours after their return to Warri, which they were sweet-talked to leave, about a month ago. Security officials: They looked thin and pale but were very happy to be back to Nigeria after the ordeal they passed through in Cote d’ Ivoire. Both were still clutching a letter from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Abidjan, a pass sort of, requesting the Police, Immigration, Health and other road/border security officials of Cote d’ Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria to "grant ease of passage without let or hindrance" to them. The letter, dated July 14, entitled "Mission Order: Repatriation of (2) Stranded Nigerians to Lagos, Nigeria" was signed for Nigeria’s Ambassador in Abidjan by B.J. Sambo. Starved for three days: The elder of the two, Loveth Ebruke’s story on how they left Nigeria, June 20, for Abidjan, the capital of Cote d’Ivoire was not different from the earlier tale told by Hope Osioyibo and Unagba Elohor and which we reported, last Sunday. The kingpin on the run who took them for the evil mission abandoned them and came back to Nigeria after handing them over to his accomplices in Abidjan. According to Ebruke: "In the evening, they now told us to come and sit on a bench, that we should sit there and when people (men) are passing, we should be drawing them to come, to come to us. That evening I said I would not go anywhere, that they did not tell me this is what I was coming to do here." She said that because they resisted the bawdy trade and living on immoral earnings, their captors told them to "pay back the money they used to bring them to Cote d’Ivoire or else we will be paralyzed and sleep without waking up. They said we should not forget the oath we took and all kind of threats". For refusing to take part in the social evil, she said "they took us to one office and locked us there and we were kept there for three days without food." In a hideout for 48 hours: Loveth Willy Akpore who corroborated her story said that the syndicate whisked them away to a hideout outside Abidjan for two days when they got wind that security agents from Nigeria who were alerted by HURDON had arrived in the country in search of them. Because the girls were kept in different places and only Hope and Unagba were able make contact with their people at home, the security operatives and HURDON officials who went on the first rescue mission succeeded in bringing back only them, leaving the two Loveths behind. Akpore, who is the more stubborn of the two, said" "The people wanted to beat us at the hideout but I told them that if they touch me, something terrible would happen, that they do not know who I am. The way I reacted each time they came made them to withdraw." But following the heat on the syndicate by the International Police and the government of Cote d’ Ivoire, the human traffickers gave up the battle and brought the Loveths out of the hideout. They were told that they were free to return to Nigeria. The President of the Edo/Delta Union in Cote d’ Ivoire, Mr. Aiko Ikopmwosa, a.k.a. Osuki, was said to have taken them to the Nigeria House, 01 BP 1906, Abidjan 01 and later gave them money to come back home. According to a source: "They actually thought it was only Hope and Elohor that the security agents came for and when the whole thing simmers down, they will bring out the two Loveths." Home journey: "We were later put into a vehicle, we do not know anybody, we do not know how to speak French. We, however, managed to get to Lagos. It was at Seme border that we asked people how we can change the money they gave us but we had no more money when we got to Lagos. It was a good Samaritan who paid our fare from Lagos to Warri, we arrived very late on Monday night and slept in the motor park before we arrived at my Uncle’s place this Tuesday morning", Ebruke added. Top Nigerians involved: Sunday Vanguard gathered that some Nigerians in Abidjan were aware of the existence of the syndicate and even encouraged the girls not to worry, that they should continue with the business for that was what some Nigerian girls who have made it did. Ebruke said that he was shocked that a well-placed Nigerian came to tell them not to go home. Why the syndicate was scared: Loveth’s uncle, Mr. Couple Akpore, who called the said top Nigerian on phone before the syndicate buckled and released the girls, told Sunday Vanguard: "I told him that my sister told me that he was among the people encouraging them not to come back and to do prostitution in Cote d' Ivoire and that they (syndicate) would kill them if they refused to do the business. I now told him to go ahead and that I am coming on a suicide mission to Abidjan and also, that I would make sure all his family members in Nigeria were wiped out before government arrests me." London bombings: It was learnt that the death threat by a desperate Akpore, probably because of the recent London bombings drove mortal fear into the syndicate and they told the girls when they were brought out of the hideout that they should go back before their people in Nigeria would come to bomb them. Akpore’s words: "He was telling me on phone that my junior sister and the other girl are not ready to come, that they are enjoying and I told him, look, I need them back. He asked me whether I know who I am talking to. It was then I got angry and told him that if you will not release them to come back, I am coming to Abidjan on suicide mission and that I know that he is from Edo State and his people are in Benin City." According to Loveth: "Our Madam there told us that our people phoned from Nigeria that war would happen if we were not released and that they do not want war in Abidjan because of the two of us, and that because of that, they were going to return us. I asked her how they were going to return us, she said we should not worry that tomorrow, Saturday, we were moving. Then early morning on Saturday, we were freed." Blackmail: National chairman of HURDON, Mr. C.D.S. Omon-Irabor, who also spoke to Sunday Vanguard on the battle for the release of the Loveths, said: "You see everything in this country always ends up in a blackmail. Human rights activists have been doing a good job. Immediately we were able to bring Hope and Elohor back, we went on air to alert the world because that was the request of the Ambassador. Meanwhile, the parents of the Loveths became apprehensive most especially as the syndicate was threatening that they would kill the remaining girls if the money used to take them there was not paid into the account of the kingpin. They also carried a rumour that Loveth’s mother told people that her daughter was doing well in Abidjan, that she was sending them money to build house and that I should stop worrying them. This was blackmail to weaken our resolve." "So we knew that we just have to move fast and I went back to the law enforcement agency and we tried to arrange some money. But as it is, the parents of the culprits, that is the parents of those who trafficked them away; three of them in detention were asked to contribute some money to enable us travel to Abidjan with Mr. Akpore to bring back the remaining girls but they raised nothing. At the end of the day, there was now blackmail, they came back to say they would not raise money because one of the girls said she was not wiling to come because according to her, she was enjoying the place. Again the security agency said that even the money they were contributing, they would not give us they want to use it to settle the first debt that they incurred. They said that they were angry that we went to blow the matter up in the media and that the people in Abidjan would read the Sunday Vanguard report and then go and hide the girls. Their position was that we had jeopardized investigation and release of the girls. Kudos to Vanguard: He said that the publication in Sunday Vanguard helped a lot in the rescuing of the remaining two girls. His words: "It was read all over the country and that made the external affairs minister to ask him what he was doing there and the Ambassador now phoned me to say that I had given negative publicity and putting his job on the line but I warned him that if I do not see the girls back, I was going to make more trouble for him."
(Review # 12389)
- Massage Parlor Dated Added: Wed Jul 20 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
TWO Nigerian girls: LE and LW who were feared missing in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire to where they were taken by a prostitution syndicate returned to Nigeria, Monday. Meanwhile, the national headquarters of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has summoned its officials in Warri over the escape of the Nigerian kingpin of the prostitution syndicate from its custody as exclusively reported in the last edition of Sunday Vanguard. The first two girls: UE and HO who were taken to Abidjan for prostitution had arrived the country earlier through the efforts of the Warri-based Human Rights Defenders Organisation of Nigeria (HURDON), headed by Mr. C.D.S. Omon-Irabor who contacted the Nigerian embassy in Cote d'Ivoire, the Cote d'Ivoire Ambassador to Nigeria and human rights groups in Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire to secure their release from their hotel in Abidjan. LE and LW who spoke to Vanguard in Warri shortly after their arrival said they were locked up for three days without food by members of the syndicate in bid to break their resolve not to take part in prostitution. The Nigerian Embassy in Cote d'Ivoire which repatriating the girls to Nigeria said there were other stranded Nigerians in that country and appealed to the police, immigration, health and other road/border security officials in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria to grant ease of passage to them. They said they were left to come home on their own by the syndicate following the red alert by security agents, particularly after the exposé on its activities by the Sunday Vanguard. [My opinion: there are so many scams in Nigeria, that I bet this story has a scam in it somewhere, either by the girls--needing a ticket home--or the newspaper--needing a story--or the agency--needing a dramatic story to justify a fat budget. Nigeria is synonymous with scams. But I post this for what informative purposes it may serve.]
(Review # 12106)
- FERKESSEDOUGOU Street Action Dated Added: Sat Jul 09 2005 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
FEATURE-War, prostitution fuel AIDS epidemic in Ivory Coast.
Early July, 2005.
FERKESSEDOUGOU, Ivory Coast. "Love me", says the slogan above a red heart emblazoned on Kati Soro's T-shirt, "with a condom".
A foot soldier in a second battle raging alongside Ivory Coast's civil war, she is on the front line fighting AIDS.
Soro, 20, became a member of her local AIDS awareness association in the northern town of Ferkessedougou last year, "because the problem is getting worse".
Since Ivory Coast collapsed into war in 2002, young women trapped by poverty in the rebel-held north of the West African nation have become increasingly desperate to find cash.
Prostitution is one of their few options.
"There are lots of relations between girls in town and soldiers and it's worse than before," says Samuel Laoukoura, director of Ferkessedougou's Baptiste Hospital, where 67 percent of people tested so far this year were HIV positive.
"Ferkessedougou is a crossroads for people from ... Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. And with the crisis there's a real problem of means, so young girls go out looking for money, which often involves prostitution," he said.
Ivory Coast's HIV infection rate stood at about 13 percent of the population before the war. Although lower than some southern African nations, it was high by West African standards.
There are no hard figures on countrywide infection levels now, but anecdotal evidence and results from the few hospital patients who consent to be tested suggests they may have soared, while access to anti-AIDS drugs is limited.
These days, rebel soldiers, often flush with cash and high on drugs, find it easy to pick up girls who had never previously considered selling themselves.
During the first two years of the war, which erupted when rebels known now as New Forces tried to oust the president and seized the north, shops closed, making it hard to buy condoms.
"The town is full of girls who take money to go with a man," says Madeleine Soro, 25, whose friend died of AIDS last year.
"The rebels have more than one girl at a time, two or three. Lots of girls think the rebels are good-looking," she said.
FRENCH LETTERS
Locals say even more women have started selling sex since the arrival of a 10,000-strong contingent of French and U.N. troops to prevent clashes between government and rebel forces in the former French colony.
"French soldiers pay well and lots of girls want to go with them," said Kati Soro.
"They think the men might take them back to their country when they leave. Girls can earn around 10,000 CFA francs ($18.50) but there are some who can get 60,000 CFA a night or more."
Condoms are available to the 4,000-strong French force, known as Licorne, or Unicorn. The 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers are given five condoms a week.
"Morally, relations with locals are not correct," said one French officer serving in a northwestern town. "The easiest way to avoid any kind of complication is to abstain."
But he admitted this did not always happen.
"I did hear something about a soldier who had a girlfriend but he dumped her," he said. "Afterwards, her sister came forward saying they had both been raped. They did it to discredit us."
Many government health workers fled the north at the beginning of the war to avoid being seen as rebel sympathisers.
The few doctors who stayed behind say they have been so inundated with work that the AIDS problem has grown unchecked.
"During the first two years of the crisis, we were so busy that there was no time to educate people about protection against AIDS," said Seguelo Soro, the only doctor left at the regional hospital in northwestern Odienne.
Soro later met the local rebel chief to warn him about AIDS and started showing awareness films in the town's cinema.
"Recently, I took a big risk. I put on a piece of theatre where the main characters were young rebels sleeping around and getting ill. I was worried it might go down badly with the New Forces here, but actually they liked seeing themselves."
FORBIDDEN
Some health workers say the problem in the predominantly Muslim north is exacerbated by prejudice against condoms.
"If you're Muslim, you simply don't want to use a condom. It's forbidden. But for Muslims especially it's important to understand the risks because men can have two, three or four wives," says Momouni Ouattara, from charity Care International.
It is not necessarily easier for Christians. The state used to fund an AIDS programme at the well-equipped private Baptiste Hospital at Ferkessedougou, which drew patients from far away.
"Due to our Christian outlook we recommend abstinence rather than safe sex," said director Laoukoura. "This way of dealing with AIDS is different to the government's, and it withdrew our funding."
Despite the commitment to safe sex on her chest, even Kati Soro has fear in her heart. She and her boyfriend have slept with other people in the past.
"We don't always use a condom," she said. "We are thinking of going for an HIV test ... but we haven't set a date yet."
(Review # 11971)
- Abidjan - Yamoussoukro - San Pedro Massage Parlor Dated Added: Fri Sep 13 2002 Submitted by: aaa
Massage parlours are in fact "salons de beauté" (beauty salons) where girls in need of cash and TLC await you (Ivoirian men are macho and the fuck-and-go type of guys). Just look for any beauty salon and ask if a beautician performs "massage relaxant" and who does it. Make sure you see and talk to the girl. She can talk to you for a moment in the cubicle and you can agree on the type of performance you want… massage plus HJ, BJ or full service or just massage. Some are shy and refuse to perform extra services. ~~~~Girls range from 5 to 10 (beauticians are usually pretty).~~In most occasions you can obtain full service with condom. Anal performed on the girls extremely rare. Anal performed on clients with condom OK.(bring your own condom) ~~Girls are usually easy to convince. Most of the time they will offer you after-duty date (at your place) which are the best for sex . ~~Beware of rampant AIDS (street action and club girls are infected over 50%) and gay scams .~~ ~~I have located 5 or six places where I go once in a while. Girls are keen to give excellent service . Most places have shower. ~~ ~~Price : price of the massage ($ 12 - $ 15) , tip (same price)~~ (Review # 6130)
- Yamoussoukro Escort Review Dated Added: Wed Nov 21 2001 Submitted by:
Stayed at the Hotel Akwaba. At about 1am I was awoken by a knocking at my door. Annoyed, I opened it to find an attractive young girl looking at me and asking me something in an incomprehensible dialect of French. She came in and proceeded to give me one of the greatest blow jobs of my life. By 1:30 am she was gone. I gave her a gift of CFA 10000 (about $15) which was probably much more than she expected, because she didn't ask for more.~~
~~Now that's what I call room service.~~ (Review # 4656)
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