20110206
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Several thousand youths loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo marched through Abidjan on Saturday to protest the presence of Burkina Faso's president on a mediation panel aiming to resolve a post-election crisis.

20110202
Xinhua
ABIDJAN, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and seven others injured in confrontations between police and protesters on Tuesday in a northeast town in Cote d'Ivoire, witnesses reported.

20110131
reuters

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Recognising Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo as president is out of the question for African leaders trying to resolve the country's post-election crisis, the West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Sunday.

20110130
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The foreign minister appointed by Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, Alcide Dje Dje, on Saturday hailed the decision of the African Union (AU) to set up a panel to evaluate the situation in his country following a post- election crisis.

20110130
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The use of force should be the last resort in dealing with the political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping said on Saturday.

20110130
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Cote d’Ivoire’s incumbent Laurent Gbagbo must cede power, Gervais Jean Marie Kakou, minister of foreign affairs in the government of the internationally-backed president-elect Alassane Ouattara, told Xinhua on Saturday before informally attending the 16th African Union (AU) summit to be held on Jan. 30-31.

20110128
reuters

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders must insist Ivory Coast's rivals for the presidency hold face-to-face talks to resolve the post-election crisis, the African Union mediator said on Friday.

20110125
reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Supporters of Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara had to break through the main gates of the country's embassy in Paris on Tuesday into order to install the presidential claimant's choice as ambassador to France.

20110125
Xinhua
LAGOS, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- An Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) delegation is expected to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week on the political situation in Cote d'Ivoire.

20110123
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - EU sanctions aiming to squeeze Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo's access to funding could hurt the nation's 40,000-barrel-per-day oil sector and may shut down its 80,000 bpd refinery within months, according to the head of the state oil firm.

20110123
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo will find ways to sidestep economic sanctions aimed at removing him from power, his government said on Sunday after West African leaders moved to sever his funds from the regional central bank.

20110121
BuaNews

Pretoria — The United States is working with its African partners to impose sanctions against Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters and broadened a travel ban in the latest bid to pressure the Ivory Coast President to step down.

20110120
xinhua
ABIDJAN, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The camp of Laurent Gbagbo, one of Cote d'Ivoire's presidential claimants, has voiced opposition to the UN plan to send additional 2,000 peacekeepers to the West African country.

20110120
xinhua
ABIDJAN, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The camp of Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo has "rejected" Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga as the African Union (AU) mediator in the West African country because of his "manifest bias" for Alassane Ouattara, the other presidential claimant.

20110119
xinhua

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Forces loyal to the former president of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, who declined to put down power despite his electoral defeat, have opened fire toward UN peacekeepers in a new "act of aggression," a UN envoy told reporters here on Tuesday.

20110118
xinhua

ACCRA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Ghana on Tuesday justified its position of no military intervention in neighboring Cote d'Ivoire to resolve the post-election crisis.

20110118
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday delayed a vote on sending additional troops to Ivory Coast, where the blue helmeted peacekeepers have been under attack, due to Russian objections, council envoys said.

20110118
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The African Union's mediator for Ivory Coast will cut short a trip to the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday, after failing to make a breakthrough in efforts to resolve the country's power struggle.

20110117
reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU-registered vessels have been barred from all new financial dealings with Ivory Coast's two main cocoa-exporting ports, EU sources said on Monday, as part of fresh sanctions imposed after November's contested election.

20110117
xinhua

NAIROBI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga left the country on Sunday for Nigeria from where he will travel on to Cote d'Ivoire for the second attempt to resolve the political crisis, which has engulfed the West African nation since the Nov. 28 election.