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Ivorian leader pledges to carry out UN mandate
Côte d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister, Charles Konan Banny, on Wednesday announced the resumption of preparations for long-postponed elections in the divided country under his new…
Ivorian army, rebels agree on dates for disarming
Army and rebel officials in Côte d’Ivoire have agreed to begin disarming by late September, just one month before crucial October 30 presidential elections, officials said on…
Mbeki arrives in Côte d’Ivoire on peace bid
South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday for talks with President Laurent Gbagbo, the latest bid to resolve the long-standing conflict in the…
Côte d’Ivoire prepares to disarm
Protagonists in Côte d’Ivoire’s two years of conflict were meeting on Monday in the capital, Yamoussoukro, to wrap up preparations for a long-awaited disarmament campaign set to…
Nervous Ivory Coast opposition miss cabinet meeting
Members of Ivory Coast’s main opposition party who are named in a new unity government will not participate in the first cabinet session on Thursday due to security concerns in…
Ivory Coast cease-fire hangs in the balance
West African peace-makers struggled to hold together a cease-fire deal on Friday in rebellion-divided Ivory Coast — while rebels accused loyalists of readying their…
Children caught in crossfire in Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast troops and mutineers were battling on Tuesday for control of the rebel-held central city of Bouake, where machine-gun bullets flew within meters of terrified foreign…
Rebels fire on school in Ivory Coast
Rebel soldiers have fired direct shots at an international boarding school in Ivory Coast’s second city Bouake, where some 170 foreign schoolchildren have been trapped since an…
Ivorians flee rebel-held city before govt attack
They walk slowly but steadily, hundreds of people filing along a grass-fringed road under an energy-sapping sun. They carry their most precious and necessary belongings in bags,…