UN orders Ivory Coast arms ban
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The UN Security Council has voted to impose a 13-month arms embargo on the Ivory Coast. Battles between government and rebel forces in the troubled African nation prompted the intervention
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. UNITED NATIONS -- France circulated Sunday a UN draft resolution calling for an arms embargo against Ivory Coast
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The government of France illegally attacked Ivory Coast and the UN Security Council sanctioned the illegal action with the adoption of Resolution 1572 on Monday, in what appears to be an imperial
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has appealed for order amid the violence that erupted in the West African nation over the weekend.
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AFRICAN leaders have backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s hardline Government even further in its deadly confrontation with its former colonial ruler, France.
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The decision last Monday by the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Ivory Coast -- with the possibility of further sanctions -- was necessary to slow the spiral toward chaos in
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast African leaders are backing an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast as well as a travel ban and freezing of assets.
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United Nations peacekeeping forces Friday halted a column of Ivory Coast government troops, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
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South Africa has thrown its support for a United Nations (UN) arms embargo against Ivory Coast following internal strife that saw people killed in violent attacks.
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A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per year.
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Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council to impose a mandatory arms embargo on Sudan to stop all parties to the conflict in Darfur committing human rights abuses.
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African Union leaders give their support to proposed UN sanctions, including an arms ban, on Ivory Coast.
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The Government of the Ivory Coast is planning to take legal action against French troops accused of shooting civilians. The Ivorian Government is taking its case to the International Court of Justice.
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A summit of West African leaders to  address renewed fighting in Ivory Coast gave its backing to a  proposed United Nations arms embargo on both sides of the  conflict, a communique said on Sunday.
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The United Nations said Thursday that it has suspended the use of rubber bullets while it reviews whether peacekeepers have potentially deadly expired ammunition that has hardened with age.
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s hard-line government
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The UN Security Council voted yesterday to monitor illegal arms flows in Somalia for another six months, with an eye to tightening an arms embargo imposed on the East African country 12 years ago. The 15-nation council unanimously adopted a resolution stressing the obligation of all 191 UN member-states to comply fully with the 1992 weapons ban and ''expressing its ...