African mediators left Côte d’Ivoire without a breakthrough in the West African nation’s presidential vote crisis.
Troops loyal to isolated Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo sealed off roads to the hotel that houses Alassane Ouattara’s rival government on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2010
Mediators looked to have secured an end to Côte d’Ivoie’s political crisis on Monday after the key players agreed to salvage a political accord.
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/ 19 October 2009
Guinea’s isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a UN inquiry into a massacre of opposition demonstrators last month.
Once one of West Africa’s most stunning zoos, Abidjan’s menagerie became a sad victim of the country’s political turmoil but help from South Africa could give it a facelift and its animals a new lease on life. ”Since its creation very few shelters and cages have been built, putting at risk the lives of animals exposed to bad weather,” said zoo director Ayekoue Yapo.
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/ 16 November 2004
Côte d’Ivoire was under an arms embargo on Tuesday after a unanimous vote in the United Nations Security Council aiming to quell a new wave of unrest that has convulsed the West African state and sent thousands of foreigners fleeing. The country’s northern rebels, meanwhile, were preparing a march towards Abidjan.
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/ 10 November 2004
An exodus from Côte d’Ivoire began on Wednesday as France sent planes to evacuate nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled across the borders to escape violence that has claimed a reported 145 lives. About 1 300 Europeans are sheltering at a French military base near the airport.
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/ 9 November 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki was on Tuesday to meet his Côte d’Ivoire counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the West African state for two years.
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/ 22 February 2001
ELEPHANTS are seen as a fundamental part of west Africa’s cultural heritage, but their numbers have dwindled so fast that they risk soon being consigned to memory, conservation experts have warned. Conservationists from 12 west African countries made a strong call for an all-out offensive against elephant poaching as they wound up a three-day conference […]