Ivory Coast Leader Defiant as Summit Convenes
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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
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Ivory Coast's president urges former rebels to start disarming on Friday, but they refuse to do so.
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ABIDJAN  - Top Ivory Coast and French officials appealed for calm, pledging to cooperate to put down a wave of unrest that left at least 13 dead and hundreds injured in the divided west African state.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast showed no signs of easing yesterday as African leaders prepared to seek ways to end the crisis in the West African country.
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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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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki took his peace mission to Ivory Coast's rebel town  of Bouake on Sunday, where he was greeted by tens of thousands  of people demanding President Laurent Gbagbo quit.
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Six African leaders sent a tough message to Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo, supporting a proposed UN arms embargo on his country and warning him against further attacks on rebel-held cities.
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast has showed no signs of easing as African leaders prepare to meet to seek ways to end the crisis in the West African country.
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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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PRESIDENT Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast has assured the UN he will put no obstacles in the way of the peace process in the divided west African country.
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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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Rebels from Ivory Coast wrapped up two days of talks with President Thabo Mbeki on Friday, pledging they would not stand in the way of peace in their war-divided West African country.
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Ivory Coast opposition leader Henri Konan Bedie holds his first official rally since being deposed as president in 1999.
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Head of the African Union Olusegun Obasanjo holds crisis talks following a second day of fighting in Ivory Coast.
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Ivory Coast's new army chief said on Friday he was ready to negotiate to achieve peace in the West African country, two weeks after commanding an assault on the rebel-held north which shattered an 18-month cease-fire.
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Ivory Coast rebels vowed on Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought to resurrect a peace process in the world's top cocoa grower and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.