Ivory Coast Leader Defiant as Summit Convenes
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo  replaced his army chief with a more hardline officer and vowed  to rebuild his air force on Sunday as regional leaders gathered  in Nigeria to discuss unrest in the West African state.
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President Thabo Mbeki met with Ivory Coast Prime Minister Seydou Diarra for three hours yesterday as part of talks aimed at bringing peace to the conflict-wracked Ivory Coast.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki tried to defuse a crisis in Ivory Coast on Tuesday which has triggered days of rioting, put French troops on the streets and paralyzed cocoa exports in the world's top grower.
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The leader of the northern rebels in Ivory Coast is traveling to South Africa to meet with President Thabo Mbeki to discuss the peace process in the world&#39;s number one cocoa-producing nation.
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PARIS : Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has dismissed as "an insult" comments by French President Jacques Chirac that France will continue its UN-mandated action in the troubled west African nation and ...
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It was no simple matter, in the midst of mob demonstrations and machete attacks on foreigners in Ivory Coast last week, for a Westerner to keep an appointment with President Laurent Gbagbo.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Ivory Coast rebels vowed on  Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought  to resurrect a peace process in the world's top cocoa grower  and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.
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Nigeria convened an African summit on Ivory Coast's crisis Sunday without the leader of the embattled nation, who remained holed up in his mansion, increasingly surrounded by hard-liners in his confrontation ...
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has taken some steps toward implementing peace agreements struck earlier with rebels who hold the northern part of the country, a spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki said
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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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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast - President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday arrived in the central Ivory Coast rebel stronghold of Bouake, where he received a rousing welcome as a potential peacemaker in the divided country.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s new army chief said on Friday he was ready to negotiate to achieve peace in the West African country, two weeks after he commanded an
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French President Jacques Chirac and his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo, the current head of the African Union, held talks here Thursday centring on mediation efforts in the troubled Ivory Coast.
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Northern-based Ivory Coast rebels are refusing mounting pressure to disarm, saying they still lack confidence in President Laurent Gbagbo to implement a stalled peace accord.
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West African leaders meeting in Ghana with instability in Ivory Coast high on their agenda.
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OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO - Delegates to the Francophonie summit decided Saturday not to expel Ivory Coast from the organization, instead they passed a resolution condemning the violence in the country and threatened future sanctions.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is determined to work hard to end the conflict in Ivory Coast and is likely to spend up to three days there next week, his spokesman said on Wednesday.