CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY CÔTE d'Ivoire and Gabon are inching closer to being the first African countries to grant women full equal opportunities in their labour markets. Theirs are the only economies on the continent to have scored above 90 in the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law Index, which evaluates a range of laws affecting women's access to economic opportunities, across 190 countries. The lifting of restrictions on hiring women in Côte d'Ivoire is among major gender reforms that have increased that country's overall score to 95, according to the report. Other gender-related reforms enacted by Cote…