20110325
Reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A draft resolution France and Nigeria submitted to the U.N. Security Council on Friday calls for sanctions against Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, his foreign minister and three other people.

20110325
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 UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday as violence escalated in a 4-month power struggle.

20110325
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 UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday as violence escalated in a 4-month power struggle.

20110325
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France has circulated a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council that would impose sanctions on Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo and his inner circle, Paris' U.N. envoy said on Friday.

20110325
presstv
The United Nations has set up an international probe into post-election violence in Ivory Coast as unrest continues to haunt the West African country.

20110325
presstv
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have called on the UN to take stricter measures and push for Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's resignation.

20110318
reuters

UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (Xinhua) -- UN Security Council on Friday condemned the brutal attacks against unarmed civilians in Cote d'Ivoire, stressing the perpetrators must be held accountable.

20110318
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Laurent Gbagbo has called on Ivory Coast's civilians to help his forces "neutralise" suspected rebels, raising fears of a return to all out civil war as fighting continued in Abidjan on Friday.

20110318
Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara broke three months of silence on the gunmen fighting to defend his claim to the presidency on Thursday, saying he officially recognised the former rebels as the legitimate army.

20110318
Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed in Ivory Coast on Thursday when forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo fired a series of shells into a neighbourhood that supports his rival, the U.N. mission said.

20110315
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead four people on Tuesday near a roadblock run by youth supporters of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo in the Abidjan suburb of Deux Plateau, several witnesses said.

20110315
reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Sanctions will slowly but surely break Laurent Gbagbo's grip on Ivory Coast and France will do what it can to ensure Alassane Ouattara takes his rightful place as president, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday.

20110314
xinhua

ABIDJAN, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters on Sunday voiced opposition to the endorsement by the African Union (AU) of Alassane Ouattara as the president-elect in the West African country.

20110314
xinhua

ABIDJAN, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Heavy fighting was heard on Monday around the residence of the army chief in Cote d'Ivoire, causing panic among residents in Yopougon district in the economic capital Abidjan, witnesses told Xinhua.

20110314
xinhua

ABIDJAN, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Heavy fighting erupted on Monday morning in Yopougon, the commercial district of Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan, marking the first time a stronghold of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo has ever been attacked since the Nov. 28 presidential run-off.

20110314
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions broke out in an Abidjan stronghold of Laurent Gbagbo, just outside the private house of his army chief, witnesses and a security source said, but state TV denied his residence had been attacked.

20110313
reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila has fired two ministers from junior coalition partners in what analysts believe is part of a bid by his party to assert itself before elections in November.

20110312
REUTERS

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Security forces loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo launched an assault on Saturday to flush out fighters backing rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara from an Abidjan suburb, a source at military headquarters told Reuters.

20110311
reuters

ABIDJAN/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Senegal's leader, Abdoulaye Wade, said on Friday Ivory Coast was "entering a phase of war" after the latest attempt by the African Union to resolve a power struggle by diplomacy failed.

20110310
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday ordered the resumption of cocoa exports in a counter-act to his presidential rival's call for export suspension.