20110402
Reuters
NORTHERN OUTSKIRT OF ABIDJAN (Reuters) - From a half-built motorway toll station a 20-minute drive from Abidjan, several hundred troops loyal to Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara prepare for what their commander tells them will be the "final assault" to unseat his rival Laurent Gbagbo.

20110402
Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 800 people were killed in intercommunal violence in the western Ivorian town of Duekoue this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday.

20110401
Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Fighters loyal to presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara attacked the residence of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan early on Friday and seized control of Ivory Coast's state television, a Ouattara spokesman said.

20110401
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - Laurent Gbagbo must leave now to avoid a bloodbath in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan after facing "mass defections" in the army, France said on Thursday.

20110331
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Forces allied with Cote d'Ivoire's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara have entered the country's political capital Yamoussoukro, media reports said on Wednesday.

20110331
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Forces allied with Alassane Ouattara, one of the two presidency claimants in Cote d'Ivoire, are marching toward the West African countries political capital Yamoussoukro and the economic capital Abidjan.

20110331
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Forces backing Cote d'Ivoire's presidency claimant Alassane Ouattara announced new gains on Wednesday, saying they have taken the towns of Bouafle and Sinfra.

20110331
presstv
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has slapped sanctions on Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo due to his refusal to cede power to the president-elect Alassane Dramane Ouattara.

20110329
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara took control of two more key towns as they pushed south on Tuesday towards a major port in the west and got within 200 km of the main city of Abidjan, witnesses said.

20110329
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara seized two major towns in the western cocoa belt in an offensive that is also picking up momentum in the east of the country.

20110328
UN News

Fresh fighting erupted today in a strategic town in western Côte d'Ivoire, the United Nations peacekeeping operation reported, amid mounting international concerns about the humanitarian situation in the West African country.

20110328
reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments are preparing possible harsher sanctions against Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo to try to force the incumbent leader to relinquish power, EU diplomats said.

20110326
IPS

Elubo, Ghana — As many as a million people have fled Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan, due to intensified fighting. Many people are fleeing to areas in the north, centre and east of the country as thousands of youth answered a call to join forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo; others are trying to leave the country.

20110327
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Alassane Ouattara, Ivory Coast's internationally recognised president, has rejected the African Union's nomination of an envoy to negotiate an end to the crisis in the country, questioning his impartiality.

20110327
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Abidjan gunmen fighting Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo after he refused to concede an election say they want him out. But that doesn't necessarily mean they all want his rival Alassane Ouattara in.

20110326
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France and Nigeria circulated a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council on Friday that would impose sanctions on Ivory Coast's incumbent leaders and ban heavy weapons from the Abidjan area.

20110326
reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to one million Ivorians have now fled fighting in the main city Abidjan alone, with others uprooted across the country, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday as violence escalated in a four-month power struggle.

20110325
allafrica

Cote d'Ivoire faces a humanitarian tragedy, with aid access becoming increasingly difficult, hospitals and schools closing, law and order collapsing and casualties mounting, France's representative to the United Nations said on Friday.

20110325
UN News

As many as 1 million people have been driven from their homes in Côte d'Ivoire in the months-long turmoil stemming from the outgoing president's refusal to leave office, with violence mounting and his loyalists using heavy weapons against civilians, a top United Nations official said today.

20110325
Leadership (Abuja)

Abuja — The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has, in its communiqué issued by its president Victor James Gbeho, after a two-day exhaustive session of the 39th extraordinary summit of heads of states and government of ECOWAS, which ended in Abuja yesterday, urged the United Nations Security Council to facilitate the immediate transfer of power to the acclaimed winner of the disputed November 28 presidential election, Alassane Ouattara.