Ivory Coast abuse threatens elections
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Unchecked civilian abuse by Ivory Coast military and rebels &amp;#151; ranging from robbery to killings &amp;#151; threatens to derail elections planned for later this year, an international monitoring group said Thursday.
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Followers of a Senegalese religious leader allied to President Abdoulaye Wade attacked supporters of a rival candidate late on Wednesday, injuring at least three people and raising tensions days ahead of elections.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is engaged in political fire-fighting in the Ivory Coast, where fears of a full-scale civil war between government and rebel forces loom large.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s embattled leader sounded one of the first conciliatory notes Tuesday in his West African nation&#39;s devastating confrontation with its former colonial
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Senior African Union officials will meet on Saturday for emergency talks on the conflict that has reignited in Ivory Coast, threatening to undermine efforts to restore peace in neighbouring countries, an official said.
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Incident intensifies the threat of a violent sectarian split with the approach of elections that political leaders are struggling to salvage.
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Ivory Coast government forces have resumed air strikes on former rebels, while political violence targeting opposition parties in Abidjan raised fears of fresh civil strife.
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The UN Security Council has warned Ivory Coast&#39;s government and rebel leaders that they would be hit with sanctions if they failed to carry out their commitments under a new peace initiative.
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A few days ahead of Ghana's parliamentary and presidential elections, the State Department is warning U.S. citizens to use caution if traveling in the West African nation.
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France is blaming President Laurent Gbagbo for the attacks on French interests in the Ivory Coast, as it moves to boost its military presence in the West African nation.
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A number of French women living in Ivory Coast were raped during anti-French violence in France&#39;s former West African colony over the past week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous said in Paris.
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A summit of French-speaking nations is to focus on the civil war in Ivory Coast which resumed three weeks ago, ministers say. The Francophone summit in Burkina Faso is due to consider a motion condemning the actions of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.
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NEW YORK: Ivory Coast, accusing France of human rights violations, demanded yesterday the formation of an international commission to investigate the purported shooting by French troops into a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in the city of Abidjan.
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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At an emergency summit, the African Union has condemned the violence in Ivory Coast over the past two weeks. The AU supports the United Nations resolution to impose sanctions and an arms embargo against Ivory
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Elections on Sunday are supposed to herald the birth of a new Congo, but that future is threatened by old soldiers who won't give up their habits of looting, raping and killing.
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Foreign Ministry officials are considering recalling diplomatic personnel now in the Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan due to increasing anti-French violence and widespread rioting and looting.