20110925
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ivory Coast called on Friday for international financial backing for a West African security plan in a volatile border region to help protect elections next month in Liberia.

20110923
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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's cash-strapped government has offered flag carrier Royal Air Maroc 1.6 billion dirhams to shore up its finances hurt by growing competition, lower sales and higher fuel prices.

20110919
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The United Nations and regional governments are deploying additional soldiers to Ivory Coast's border area with Liberia after deadly attacks on villages in the densely forested West African region, a military official said.

20110906
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will change the official name of its armed forces in the coming days, the government said on Monday, in what was seen as an effort to clean up its image after the country's civil war.

20110903
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An aggressive striker on the soccer field, Didier Drogba is now a peacemaker in his home country.

20110831
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast is in talks with creditors over its defaulted $2.3 billion Eurobond but there is "no doubt" repayments will restart in 2012, the managing director of the treasury said on Wednesday.

20110817
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast reopened Abidjan's main prison on Tuesday and promised to improve notoriously poor conditions there, almost five months after insurgents freed its more than 5,000 inmates.

20110812
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian forces have carried out 26 extrajudicial killings in the past month, the U.N. mission said on Thursday, a revelation likely to increase pressure on President Alassane Ouattara to discipline his troops and bring some commanders to justice.

20110812
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian authorities arrested 57 soldiers from former president Laurent Gbagbo's regime on Thursday, and charged them with crimes ranging from murder and kidnapping to attacking state security and buying illegal arms, the military prosecutor said.

20110808
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PRAIA, Cape Verde (Reuters) - Voters in the West African archipelago of Cape Verde went to the polls on Sunday in a hotly contested election that threatens to split the poor but stable nation's ruling party in two.

20110807
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A bus plunged into the lagoon in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan on Friday morning, killing 37 of its 47 passengers, a government spokeswoman said.

20110730
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Four officers from former president Laurent Gbagbo's military returned to Ivory Coast from exile in Ghana on Friday, to a warm welcome from troops who helped oust him, in a sign the war-divided nation may be moving towards reconciliation.

20110722
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday that it had made its first visit to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, along with other detainees in the north this week.

20110702
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy to Ivory Coast urged the government on Thursday to restore law and order by deploying police and sending former rebels who helped President Alassane Ouattara seize power back to their barracks.

20110701
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy to Ivory Coast urged the government on Thursday to restore law and order by deploying police and sending former rebels who helped President Alassane Ouattara seize power back to their barracks.

20110624
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Former rebels loyal to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara were last week still committing abuses such as executions and torture in which they killed at least 8 people, the United Nations said on Thursday.

20110624
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's top war crimes prosecutor said forces loyal to ousted Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo as well as those backing his rival, Alassane Ouattara, committed war crimes in the post-election violence.

20110526
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's former ruling party acknowledged on Wednesday that President Alassane Ouattara had won November's disputed election, but said it would not join a unity government until ex-president Laurent Gbagbo was freed.

20110525
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian forces loyal to both former president Laurent Gbagbo and current president Alassane Ouattara committed war crimes during a violent standoff over a disputed poll, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has warned neighboring countries that mercenaries may threaten the security of West Africa.