UN and France hand demand to Gbagbo
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Ivorian officials said Gbagbo, elected four years ago in disputed polls, was coming under pressure from France to quit. &quot;It&#39;s out of the question,&quot; said national assembly speaker Mamadou Koulibaly.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said he&#39;s ordered new aircraft and vowed to buy more if necessary after France wiped out the country&#39;s two-plane air force in response to a strike on the former colonial ruler&#39;s own troops.
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France readied a U.N. resolution  that seeks an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast after nine French  soldiers and an American civilian were killed in a government  bombing raid.
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the past two weeks. The AU supports the United Nations resolution to impose sanctions and an arms embargo against Ivory Coast, in an effort to prevent further military action.
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France is to seek a vote in the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo and other bans on the Ivory Coast. The move comes after a ceasefire in the Ivory Coast was broken and nine French soldiers were killed by government bombings.
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The UN secretary general calls for up to 11,000 troops to be sent to Chad and the Central African Republic.
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The Rwandan government Friday expressed welcome to the South African government&#39;s call to the United Nations, which urged the latter to mandate its peacekeepersin the Democratic
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: French troops fired into the air today to disperse protesters gathered to protect President Laurent Gbagbo, as unrest swept Ivory Coastâs main city Abidjan after weekend clashes between French and Ivorian forces.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo's government wants France to leave the UN-mandated peacekeeping force in the west African country, the ruling party's representative in Britain told the BBC.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo  said on Tuesday he was committed to reunifying the West African  country but said that it was up to the United Nations to start  disarmament in the world's top cocoa grower.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said  in comments broadcast Thursday that a U.N. arms embargo could  help contain rebels fighting the government, but vowed to  create a "real army" and rebuild his air force.
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France introduced a Security Council resolution yesterday that would add two UN battalions in the Congo immediately before members debate a plan to more than double the number of peacekeepers. The draft resolution, expected to be approved this week, would deploy some 1,600 to 1,700 soldiers, probably from Pakistan and India, in the capital, Kinshasa, and in the volatile Kivu ...
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The United Nations says it is trying to speed up the arrival of peacekeeping troops in Haiti to help with emergency relief in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which wreaked havoc in the Caribbean nation earlier this month.
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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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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gave his backing to peace talks between Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel leader Guillaume Soro provided the dialogue takes place as part of an internationally backed peace process.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday and the UN Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast, stepping up pressure to end the violence that spurred the exodus.
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Britain, France and the US have agreed to a 5,900 increase in the strength of the UN force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fewer than half the reinforcements requested by the secretary general, Kofi Annan.