Ivorian chief calls for calm following clashes
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has appealed for calm and urged protesters to return home after two days of anti-French violence.
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November 15, 2004 -- ABUJA, Nigeria - West African leaders held a crisis summit yesterday over unrest in Ivory Coast, as the beleaguered country&#39;s president took a tough stance, sacking his army chief and installing a more hard-line officer in his place
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ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST - South Africa&#39;s president flew to Ivory Coast to try to quell the violence between government forces, French troops and civilians that has wounded more than 600 and killed at least 20.
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Francophone heads of state on Saturday urged Ivory Coast&#39;s warring parties to renounce violence and reopen talks to end a long-simmering conflict threatening to destabilize West Africa.
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Leaders at a summit in Burkina Faso of mostly French-speaking nations have condemned authorities in divided Ivory Coast for resuming hostilities in the rebel-held north earlier this month.
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki appealed for calm and offered to talk to political rivals on Thursday after another day of battles between police and protesters disputing his re-election.
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Ivory Coast says 63 people have been killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it hands over military powers to a former head of its northern command, whose appointment is considered a provocation by both the rebels and France.
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ELEANOR HALL: Hundreds of French reinforcements have been sent to stop escalating violence in Ivory Coast. On the weekend, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the commercial capital Abidjan to
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- A tense face-off took place outside the home of Ivory Coast&#39;s hard-line president. Thousands of government loyalists formed a &quot;human shield&quot; outside the Abidjan home of President Laurent
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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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Kosovo Albanian leaders  appealed for calm on Sunday after two people died in clashes  between police and Albanians protesting a U.N. plan they say  falls short of full independence from Serbia.
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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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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - Hundreds of demonstrators  faced off with French troops in Abidjan on Monday after state  radio urged protesters to form a "human shield" to protect the  house of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Abidjan - President Thabo Mbeki on Monday said Ivorian groups embroiled in a bitter two-year civil upheaval have agreed to four proposals to put the troubled west African country back on the road to peace.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is on his way to Ivory Coast to try to restore calm after two days of violence.
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PARIS, Nov 7  - France&#39;s military chief said on Sunday that his troops may have killed or wounded people during recent clashes with anti-French demonstrators in Ivory Coast.