African leaders back Ivory Coast sanctions
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African leaders supported an arms embargo and other UN sanctions on the Ivory Coast government and rebels on Sunday.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- President Laurent Gbagbo has called on the United Nations to name and impose sanctions on countries that helped rebels wage a civil war in the West African state, Ivorian media reported yesterday.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - African leaders said on  Monday they were determined to resolve conflicts in Ivory  Coast, Congo and Sudan's Darfur region to stop the violence  affecting other countries, but called for international  support.
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The United States on Tuesday praised the efforts of South African President Thabo Mbeki who, on the behalf of the African Union, has vied to restart the peace process in the Ivory Coast.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Ivory Coast rebels vowed on  Monday to repel army attacks robustly as the U.N. Security  Council was poised to slap an immediate arms embargo on all  sides of the conflict in the world's top cocoa producer.
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Ivory Coast rebels on Monday vowed to repel army attacks as the U.N. Security Council imposed an arms embargo on the world's top cocoa producer and vowed to punish government and rebel leaders with more sanctions next month to force them to return to the terms of a 2003 peace agreement.
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âLa Francophonie has a large political role to play, especially to prevent conflicts,â said Deiss. The French bloc adopted a resolution on Ivory Coast after talks on Saturday in the Burkina Faso capital
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- All sides in Ivory Coast's conflict have agreed on measures to revive a moribund peace plan and speed up its implementation, South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday at the end of a mediation mission.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast woke to a national holiday after a weekend of diplomacy by African leaders fearful of a return to war in the divided state, and awaiting a vote by the UN Security Council likely to impose sanctions including an arms embargo.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s embattled leader sounded one of the first conciliatory notes Tuesday in his West African nation&#39;s devastating confrontation with its former colonial
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The UN Security Council yesterday gave wide support to a resolution that would impose sanctions against Ivory Coast if the government and rebels donât return to a peace process by the beginning of December, diplomats said.
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Ivory Coast's president said Thursday that he accepts a U.N. arms embargo targeting his government, if it applies equally to all factions in the country's civil war.
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate U.N. sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo's hard-line government even further in its deadly confrontation with ...
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The African Union called on the  international community to take tougher action in Ivory Coast  and Congo, two of the continent's biggest crises that risk  destabilizing their wider regions.
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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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Ivory Coast rebels vowed on Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought to resurrect a peace process in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.
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West African leaders including Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo met in Nigeria trying to re-start Ivory Coast's stalled peace process and prevent more unrest in the divided country.