IVORY COAST GOVERNMENT RESIGNS

THE government of Ivory Coast has resigned after a cabinet meeting in a move that will allow those ministers who recently won election to parliament to vote for a president when parliament meets on Monday for the first time since it was dissolved after a coup in December 1999. Prime Minister Affi N’Guessan offered his resignation and that of the government to President Laurent Gbagbo, who immediately reappointed Affi as prime minister and asked him to form another government within 72 hours. – Reuters