French, Nigerian leaders discuss Ivory Coast
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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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More than 30 French speaking heads ofstate and government met Friday in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou for a summit mainly focused on the situation in Cote d'Ivoire, but the day was marked by the angry exit ...
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The African Union (AU) said yesterday it supports United Nations and French intervention in Ivory Coast as UN Security Council held talks last night on a French resolution to impose an arms embargo on Ivory Coast.
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ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast and France traded jabs Monday over responsibility for last week&#39;s unrest, as the UN Security Council appeared set to impose an arms embargo on the divided west African state.
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French President Jacques Chirac (C), flanked by General Secretary of the Francophone association (OIF) Abdou Diouf (L) and Burkina Faso&#039s President Blaise Compaore give a press conference at the end of the ...
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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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Heads of state from French-speaking nations are gathering in the west African nation of Burkina Faso for a two-day summit to discuss the crisis in Ivory Coast.
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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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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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South African President Thabo Mbeki is meeting with Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel leaders to discuss the latest peace initiatives. Tens of thousands of people with banners demanding that President Laurent
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OUAGADOUGOU  - Leaders from 36 French-speaking countries wrapped up a summit in Burkina Faso, with a call to the protagonists in the Ivory Coast conflict to implement a French-brokered pact to restore peace.
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A summit of French-speaking nations will now concentrate on the civil war in Ivory Coast, ministers say.
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CANNES, France  - A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory  Coast showed no signs of easing on Saturday as African leaders  prepared to met to seek ways to end the crisis in the West  African country.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki said Monday he had reached agreement with all sides  in Ivory Coast's conflict on measures which should speed up  implementation of a French-brokered peace accord.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo held talks in Tokyo on the start of a trans-Pacific trip which could be the last summit for Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki started new peace talks with various Ivory Coast groups, as European Union delegates urged all parties to find a peaceful solution to the two-year crisis wracking the divided west African nation.