20110102
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A U.N. investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Ivory Coast will be fruitless without the cooperation of authorities loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, an official in his administration said on Sunday.

20110101
reuters

ABIDJAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official warned incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and other senior officials on Friday they may be held criminally accountable for human rights violations.

20110101

ABIDJAN, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire said on Friday that he would not step down as president.

20101231
reuters

UNITED NATIONS/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - U.N. advisers expressed grave fears on Thursday about ethnic violence in Ivory Coast after its disputed presidential election and Abidjan's new ambassador to the United Nations warned that the West African nation was on the "brink of genocide."

20101231
reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday she had written to Laurent Gbagbo and other senior Ivorian officials to make clear they could be held criminally accountable for human rights violations.

20101031
reuters

ABIDJAN/LONDON (Reuters) - Ivory Coast stood hours away from missing an international debt payment on Friday, with one of the crisis-torn country's rival governments saying the cash had run out and the other offering no guarantees.

20101231
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it would give support at the United Nations for the use of force to oust Ivory Coast's incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo if West African nations sought backing for a military intervention.

20101228
africanews

A three-member delegation from the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] are due in West African nation of Ivory Coast on Tuesday to counsel embattled president Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his opponent Alassane Ouattara.

20101227
africanews

Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara has called for a nationwide general strike from Monday to paralyse the country until incumbent Laurent Gbagbo cedes power. The country has faced a violent political impasse since a presidential election last month, which was intended to heal the scars of a 2002-2003 civil war but has instead triggered bloodshed between the rival camps.

20101227
xinhuanet

ABIDJAN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The party of Cote d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara called on citizens to go on strike till Laurent Gbagbo's stepping down, media reports said Sunday.

20101226
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At a church in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan on Saturday, teacher George Kouadio prayed that the political crisis in his country would not reach the point of a new civil war.

20101226
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Three West African presidents will fly to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to tell incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to quit or face force, Benin said on Saturday, a sign of mounting regional determination to force him out.

20101226
africanews

An official aircraft belonging to beleaguered Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo has been grounded at the Basel-Mulhouse airport in Switzerland. According to a French foreign ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, the aircraft was grounded with the backing of "the legitimate authorities" of the West African state.

20101226
xinhua

GENEVA, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The total number of refugees fleeing from Cote d'Ivoire to the neighboring Liberia has grown to 14,000 following the post-electoral instability in the country, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Saturday.

20101226
reuters

ABIDJAN, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo has rejected a warning by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that force might be used to make him give up power, media reports said Saturday.

20101226
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The government of Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo said on Saturday a threat of force by West African leaders calling for him to step down after last month's disputed election was "unjust".

20101223
africanews

The US President, Barrack Obama held a telephone conversation with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria over the crisis in Ivory Coast, commending the role played by Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] in resolving the Ivorian crisis.
Obama: Africa's future is up to Africans themselves

20101224
reuters

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands said on Friday it had sent a naval ship to the Ivory Coast which could evacuate Dutch and other European citizens if post-election violence worsened in the West African nation.

20101224
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo faces a cash crunch that could make it hard for him to continue paying the wages of soldiers who back him, after the West African regional central bank cut his access to funds.

20101221
IPS

United Nations — The United Nations is taking an unrelenting stand on the spreading constitutional crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, where two contenders - one victorious and the other vanquished - are battling it out for the country's presidency.