Ivory Coast strife could spread across West Africa, says UN
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The flare-up of violence in the Ivory Coast - which has seen 300 British troops sent in to evacuate British nationals â-ould spread across West Africa and plunge the region back into conflict, a senior UN official has warned.
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Paris - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called, in a radio interview aired on Thursday, for French businessmen to return to Ivory Coast, the divided West African state hit recently by anti-French and anti-Westerner violence.
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The UN mission says it needs extra troops to continue to maintain order in Ivory Coast which has seen renewed fighting between rival factions.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has appealed for order amid the violence that erupted in the West African nation over the weekend.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast woke to a national holiday after a weekend of diplomacy by African leaders fearful of a return to war in the divided state, and awaiting a vote by the UN Security Council likely to impose sanctions including an arms embargo.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Ivory Coast's rebels  pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo's army back  to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again,  raising the specter of all-out war in the West African country.
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More than 10,000 Ivorians have fled to Liberia since the sharp escalation in Ivory Coast's civil war 10 days ago, the UN refugee agency warned.
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Chaos is looming in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region as violence increases, order collapses, and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to
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The African Union (AU) is considering the deployment of peacekeepers to Ivory Coast after days of violence in the world's largest cocoa producer, South African President Thabo Mbeki's spokesman has said.
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An African crisis summit to discuss  unrest in Ivory Coast on Sunday called for an immediate U.N.  arms embargo on both sides in the conflict, as the Ivorian  government moved to rebuild its air force.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast was under an arms embargo after a unanimous vote in the UN Security Council aiming to quell a new wave of unrest that has convulsed the west African state and sent thousands of foreigners fleeing.
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Hundreds of thousands of people could die in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region if aid workers are forced to leave because of violence, a top UN official says.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams speaks with NPR&#39;s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about the growing unrest in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony.
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An African crisis summit to discuss unrest in Ivory Coast on Sunday called for an immediate UN arms embargo on both sides in the conflict, as the Ivorian government moved to rebuild its air force.
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Fighting in Darfur is escalating  and the Sudanese region could face a new upsurge in violence  despite efforts by the U.N. Security Council and others, U.N.  Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.
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Ivory Coast's leader vows not to block peace moves in the divided nation as the UN imposes an arms embargo.
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The UN Security Council met in special session on Saturday evening to discuss the violence in Ivory Coast, where at least 10 people died in clashes, including nine French soldiers and a US citizen.