Gbagbo puts hard-liner in charge of Ivory Coast army
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President Laurent Gbagbo has named a hard-liner as army chief of staff, prompting diplomats to warn Sunday of a possible resumption of hostilities against the rebel-held north of the Ivory Coast.
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The UN mission says it needs extra troops to continue to maintain order in Ivory Coast which has seen renewed fighting between rival factions.
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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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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo  replaced his army chief with a more hardline officer and vowed  to rebuild his air force on Sunday as regional leaders gathered  in Nigeria to discuss unrest in the West African state.
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Ivory Coast is set to get a new cabinet after the previous one resigned over a toxic waste scandal in Abidjan.
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West African leaders held a crisis summit  on Sunday over unrest in Ivory Coast as the country's president  took a tough stance, sacking his army chief and installing a  more hardline officer in his place.
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Joint patrols have begun in Ivory Coast&#39;s commercial centre, Abidjan, in an attempt to maintain law and order after three days of disturbances.
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French troops in Ivory Coast's main  city of Abidjan fired into the air on Monday to disperse  thousands of demonstrators massing to support the West African  country's President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Ivory Coast's rebel New Forces are demanding that President Laurent Gbagbo step down to allow stability to return to the divided west African state, in the throes of a new crisis after government forces ...
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast said 63 people were killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it prepared on Friday to pass control of the military to hawkish Major Colonel Philippe Mangou.
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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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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast yesterday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo's hard-line government even further in its deadly confrontation with its former colonial ruler, France.
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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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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Hostilities escalated yesterday, a day after army hard-liners broke a cease-fire and relaunched Ivory Coast&#39;s civil war.
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Traditional hunters of Ivorian rebel group the New Forces called &quot;Dozo&quot; greet South African President Thabo Mbeki upon his arrival to Bouake airport Dec. 5. Mbeki will leave the troubled Ivory Coast Dec. 6
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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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AN advance guard of British troops was in war-torn Ivory Coast yesterday planning a rescue mission. Four vehicles carrying a dozen soldiers were spotted in the capital Abidjan as up to 120 troops were put on stand-by to fly to the former French colony.