Identity crisis

Plans for new voters' cards and a new electoral register provoke yet another political deadlock

A row between Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny and President Laurent Gbagbo about identity cards and the electoral roll goes to the heart of the political crisis (AC Vol 47 No 4). Without a solution, there can be no elections and no serious hopes of peace between the armed camps. United Nations' officials and Western diplomats will probably side with Banny. Gbagbo's 'Jeunes Patriotes' will probably make trouble again.

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Charles Konan Banny, Laurent Gbagbo, Henri Konan Bédié, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, Burkina Faso, Paul Bohoun Boubre, Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Pierre Schori, Guillaume Soro, Jeunes Patriotes, Ivoirité, Notre Voie, village d'origine, Institut National de la Statistique, Office National d'Identification

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