Despite a new ceasefire signed by the government and rebels on 3 May, tension has scarcely abated. The latest flashpoint for violence is the students' union congress, where at least two people were hacked to death with machetes in fighting between two rival factions of President Laurent Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) on 10-11 May.
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