Côte d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo is negotiating his surrender, a diplomat said on Tuesday after UN and French forces bombarded military sites.
The government of Alassane Ouattara said on Monday rebels allied with their leader had seized a nearly 50km corridor along Côte d’Ivoire’s border.
The United Nations said armed men blocked about 60 families without food or water from leaving a church in Abidjan on Tuesday.
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo made an unannounced visit to Côte d’Ivoire, arriving late on Saturday for a meeting with Laurent Gbagbo.
Less than 24 hours before Guinea’s elections results were due, one of the candidates said he would not accept the outcome.
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/ 31 December 2008
Coup leaders in Guinea named a civilian banker as prime minister, making good on a key promise a week after seizing power.
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/ 23 December 2008
Guinea’s long-ruling dictator, Lansana Conte, died after a lengthy illness, the head of the National Assembly announced early on Tuesday.
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/ 8 December 2008
Officials began counting ballots late on Sunday in one of Africa’s rare democracies, where voters are painfully aware of the example they are setting.
To compete in the Scrabble competition, Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by plane.
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/ 10 October 2007
A woman stuffed the ends of her veil in her mouth to choke her cries, as men carried the wooden coffin of a 48-year-old Senegalese officer killed in the deadliest blow to peacekeepers in Darfur. Ten peacekeepers, including both soldiers and policemen, were killed when an estimated 1 000 rebels stormed an African Union base.