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/ 14 October 2007
Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo has called for an investigation into long-standing accusations that cocoa and coffee boards have embezzled funds meant to aid the producers of the country’s lucrative crops, a spokesperson said. The boards set prices for crops, oversee exports and provide development assistance.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Justice Department is pursuing a new lead in the disappearance of a French-Canadian journalist, the state prosecutor said on Saturday. Guy-Andre Kieffer, who had dual French and Canadian citizenship, disappeared three years ago and is presumed dead.
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/ 29 December 2005
War-divided Côte d’Ivoire announced a 32-member unity government that includes rebel, opposition party and ruling party ministers and represents a rare firm step toward reconciliation. Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, named earlier this month after mediators persuaded both warring sides to accept him, chose the Cabinet, which was announced by President Laurent Gbagbo’s office.
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/ 28 October 2005
An international rights group accused Côte d’Ivoire on Friday of recruiting former child soldiers and other fighters from neighbouring Liberia, luring them with offers of cash, food and clothing in anticipation of renewed civil-war battles in the country, where mounting tensions have led to fears of a new outbreak of violence.
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/ 11 November 2004
Airliners were shuttling hundreds of trapped foreigners out of Côte d’Ivoire on Thursday, as South Africa convened urgent peace talks on a crisis that it said threatens to destabilise West Africa. The mayhem has been unanimously condemned by President Laurent Gbagbo’s fellow African leaders.