Francophone Summit to Focus on Ivory Coast
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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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South African President Thabo Mbeki is sending his defence minister to Ivory Coast this week following encouraging talks with protagonists in the country&#39;s worsening conflict, officials said on Monday.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called a cabinet meeting after vowing to rebuild his military and attempting to woo back the thousands of foreign nationals who fled a new wave of violence in the divided west African state.
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Rival groups in Ivory Coast have agreed to a peace plan put forward by the South African President Thabo Mbeki. Government, Opposition and rebel leaders in Ivory Coast have endorsed the deal.
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France's President Chirac says SA leader Thabo Mbeki must "understand the soul of West Africa" to broker a peace deal in Ivory Coast.
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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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South African President Thabo Mbeki arrives in Ivory Coast seeking to resolve the country's crisis.
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France said Wednesday it would host a high-level summit in New York later this month to discuss peace and security issues in Africa.
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France chairs a Security Council summit on Africa here Tuesday expected to endorse sending European Union and UN troops to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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ABIDJAN, Nov. 14. - African leaders convened an emergency summit today on Ivory Coast without the countryâs defiant leader still holed up in his mansion, after newly promoting the hard-line commander whose
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President Thabo Mbeki began talks with Ivory Coast Prime Minister Seydou Diarra in Pretoria shortly after noon today as part of ongoing efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in that country.
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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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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.Comment
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is determined to work hard to end the conflict in Ivory Coast and is likely to spend up to three days there next week, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
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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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A summit of French-speaking countries may have opened with the Ivory Coast at the top of its agenda, but it wasn't enough to keep the West African state at the table.
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ABIDJAN  - South African President Thabo Mbeki was to meet his Ivory Coast counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the west African state for two