Ivorian leader hits out at France
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo accuses France of supporting rebels in the country's renewed civil war.
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Ivory Coast's president sacks the TV chief and says the PM acted seditiously by criticising him publicly.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi  Annan criticized on Thursday what he called inflammatory  remarks by the Ivory Coast's ruling party chief and asked the  African nation's leaders to exercise "utmost restraint."
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France derides claims by Ivory Coast's president and a top Catholic cleric that French troops beheaded protesters.
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France's President Chirac condemns racist violence that led to a policeman shooting dead a football fan.
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French President Jacques Chirac has launched a stinging attack on President Thabo Mbeki's efforts to bring peace to Ivory Coast, suggesting he lacks understanding of the "psychology and soul" of West Africa.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called a cabinet meeting after vowing to rebuild his military and attempting to woo back the thousands of foreign nationals who fled a new wave of violence in the divided west African state.
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Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo said on Saturday a law passed by parliament allowing an opposition leader to run for president would go to a referendum, triggering rebel accusations he was wrecking peace efforts.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called, in a radio interview aired in Paris on Thursday, for French businessmen to return to Ivory Coast, the divided West African state hit recently by anti-French and ...
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Former French PM Dominique de Villepin criticises the style of his one-time rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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After suffering its biggest casualties since its peacekeeping operation began in Ivory Coast two years ago, France is stepping up pressure on Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to cease all military action.
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President Laurent Gbagbo appealed for  an end to anti-French crowd violence which erupted after France  destroyed most of Ivory Coast's small air force in retaliation  for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.
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French armoured vehicles today took up positions near the home of Ivory Coast&#39;s president as enraged supporters marched on the site fearing an attempt to oust him.
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France's president condemns charity workers caught trying to take 100 children out of the Chad-Darfur region.
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Ivory Coast's rebel chief said on Thursday he wanted President Laurent Gbagbo charged with war crimes as the West African country's leader called on thousands of foreigners who fled mob violence to return.
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French forces wiped out Ivory Coast&#39;s military aircraft in retaliation for the killing of nine of its soldiers stationed here, as anti-French feeling reach boiling point in the west African former French colony.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s President Laurent Gbagbo is urging Ivorians to stop attacking French citizens and businesses after French troops destroyed two Ivorian warplanes on Saturday, a presidential spokesman said.