20101128
africanews

Campaigns for Ivory Coast's second round presidential run-off end today by midnight, with some 5.7 million voters expected to turn out on Election Day of November 28. The week-long campaigns have been marked by verbal and physical confrontations between militants of both candidates.

20101122
africanews

Campaigns for the second round run-off of Ivory Coast's presidential election began last Saturday for incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and former PM Alassane Ouattara - the two best finishers out of 14 candidates from the first round held on October 31. The campaigns will last for one week, with the run-off holding on November 28.

20101109
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will hold the decisive second round of its long-delayed presidential election on November 28, a week later than previously announced, prime minister Guillaume Soro announced on Tuesday.

20101107
Nation

Nairobi — The runoff of the presidential election will be held on November 21, 2010, the Chairman of Cote d'Ivoire's Constitutional Council Prof Paul Yao Ndré has said.

20101106
africanews

The top two finishers from Ivory Coast's Sunday's presidential election have begun preparations for a second round run-off slated for November 28.

20101105
africanews

Ivory Coast's former President Henri Konan Bédié, who with 25.24% vote finished third behind incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo (38.03%) and ex-Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara (32.08%) in Sunday's presidential election, released a statement on Thursday calling for a ballot recount after accusing the election commission (CEI) of "electoral robbery".

20101102
africanews

Tension was high on Monday in Ivory Coast as about 20 million Ivorians awaited provisional results from Sunday's presidential election judged by observers as peaceful, free and fair. The elections commission (CEI) constitutionally has a maximum of three days to announce the complete results.

20101101
RFI

Election officials in Côte D'Ivoire say they're working as fast as they can to announce election results, in a bid to restrict violence. Voters went to the presidential polls Sunday for the country's first election in a decade.

20101030
africanews

Campaigns for Ivory Coast presidential election scheduled for Sunday Oct.31 closed on Friday Oct.29 after two weeks of gruelling parades and rallies by the 14 candidates across the 322,460km² surface area of the West African nation.

20101026
africanews

Pre-election fever has intensified in the Ivory Coast as the campaigns for the presidential elections scheduled for Oct. 31 draw to a close this week. Millions of Ivorians are glued to their TV watching televised rallies and candidates' speeches.

20101023
africanews

Five people have been reportedly killed in Ivory Coast on Friday after the convoy of President Laurent Gbagbo - on a campaign tour - involved in a crash outside the economic capital Abidjan, L'Intelligent D'Abidjan said. Three journalists aboard the crashed vehicle sustained serious injuries and were immediately rushed to the hospital.

20101020
africanews

Ivorian bestselling author and independent journalist Venance Konan spoke with Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews special correspondent for Ivory Coast's presidential election holding on October 31. The author of 'Prisonniers de la Haine' (Prisoners of hatred) analyses the preparations and forecasts post-election possible situations in a sincere and bold manner.

20101017
africanews

Campaigns for the presidential election in Ivory Coast kicked off officially on Friday October 15, which will last for two weeks before Election Day of October 31.

20101015
reuters

MAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo officially opened his election campaign on Friday in the rebel-held west, pledging to industrialise the West African nation by putting a cocoa factory in every growing region.

20101015
africanews

A rebel leader in the West African country of Ivory Coast said Identity Cards being issued to voters ahead of an October 31 election have ended all the disputes which had divided the country into two. The leader of the New Forces rebels declared that the dark ages are gone.

20101008
africanews

The coach of Ivory Coast Francous Zahoui said leaving out Chelsea talisman Didier Drogba in his squad against Burundi does not mean he has a problem with him.

20100925
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. mission to Ivory Coast certified its final voter list as "fair and transparent" on Friday, adding momentum to plans to hold elections at last after years of failure.

20100924
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast could again be a popular tourist spot and attract millions of tourists annually if elections finally end the political instability that scared them off, its tourism minister said on Thursday.

20100920
RFI

A Côte d'Ivoire man arrested by the FBI in New York last week while attempting to buy weapons has turned out to be an army colonel who was there on state business. Côte d'Ivoire's armed forces say Yao N'guessan is a colonel in the army and that the arms deal was official state business.

20100911
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - For many Ivorians, it is hard to shake off the feeling that a long overdue election now scheduled for October 31 is just another mirage, tantalisingly close but destined to evaporate as the date approaches.