Korhogo produces goods such as cotton, kapok fibre, rice, millet, peanuts, corn, yams, sheep, goats and diamonds.

The coup was allegedly led by Robert Guéï, the former military dictator overthrown in a popular uprising in 2000.

Despite the formal cessation of hostilities between the government and rebels in 2003, Korhogo remains unstable, with continued fighting between rival factions.

In August 2004, the United Nations' Ivorian mission announced that three mass graves, containing at least 99 bodies, had been discovered in the town.

On 29 November 2011, the Associated Press reported that Gbagbo had been placed under house arrest in Korhogo, awaiting extradition to The Hague to face charges at the International Criminal Court.