Ghana–Ivory Coast relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Ghana and Ivory Coast. Both nations are members of the United Nations. History Artifacts and remains of the Kintampo Complex (2500 –1500 BCE) have been reported in Ivory Coast. In the Medieval era, Western Ghana and parts of Eastern Ivory Coast was the cradle of the Bono state and Gyaman. Gyaman was conquered into the Ashanti Empire between the 18th and 19th centuries, who exerted power up to the Komoé River. In the 18th century, Queen Poku led a group of Ashanti into Ivory Coast as a result of succession disputes in the Ashanti Empire after the death of Opoku Ware I. The descendants of this populace are the Baoulé people. Gyaman gained independence after the Anglo Ashanti war of 1874 until the state was absorbed into the Wassoulou Empire in 1885, who controlled Northern Ivory Coast. The French Empire incorporated Gyaman into French West Africa in 1897 after successfully conquering the Wassoulou. The entire of Ghana on the other hand was made part of the British Gold Coast by the 20th century. In the 20th century, both countries suffered from the same ups and downs that characterized Ghana-Togo relations. In early 1984, the PNDC government complained that Ivory Coast was allowing Ghanaian dissidents to use its territory as a base from which to carry out acts of sabotage against Ghana. Ghana also accused Ivory Coast of granting asylum to political agitators wanted for crimes in Ghana. Relations between Ghana and Ivory Coast improved significantly, however, after 1988. In 1989, after fifteen years of no progress, the Ghana-Ivory Coast border redemarcation commission finally agreed on the definition of the 640-kilometer border between the two countries. The PNDC thereafter worked to improve the transportation and communication links with both Ivory Coast and Togo, despite problems with both countries. By 1992 Ghana's relations with Ivory Coast were relatively good. Hopes for lasting improvement in Ghana's relations with its western neighbor, however, were quickly dashed following some ugly incidents in late 1993 and early 1994. They began on November 1, 1993, with the return of sports fans to Ivory Coast following a championship soccer match in Kumasi, Ghana, that had resulted in the elimination of Ivory Coast from competition. Ghanaian immigrants in Ivory Coast were violently attacked, and as many as forty or more Ghanaians were killed. Thereafter, scores of other Ghanaians lost their