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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

Population: 18.5 million
GNI: $16000 million
Debt: $9900 million
Overview: The much delayed presidential election is scheduled for June but progress on disarmament and identification is needed if the poll is to be credible and consolidate President Laurent Gbagbo's deal with rebel leader Guillaume Soro.

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  • Vol 47 No 11
  • 26/05/2006

Cocoa wars

The United Nations and European Union are stepping up pressure on President Laurent Gbagbo's government to account for its oil windfall funds and its levies on cocoa exports. The World Bank estimates the oil windfall has jumped from 194 million CFA francs...

  • Vol 47 No 8
  • 14/04/2006

Identity crisis

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

  • Vol 47 No 4
  • 17/02/2006

Not all necessary powers

Power struggles and postcolonial fantasies prevent the UN from disentangling the conflict

  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

Bane of Banny

The ruling Front Populaire Ivoirien's withdrawal from the national power-sharing government on 16 January serves up the first full-blown crisis to Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, appointed on 28 December (AC Vol 47 No 1). As tension mounted, FPI m...

  • Vol 46 No 23
  • 18/11/2005

Circling the wagons

President Gbagbo tells his followers to talk peace and prepare for war

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Time's up

Threats and ethnic rivalries get wilder as President Gbagbo's mandate runs out

  • Vol 46 No 20
  • 07/10/2005

No polls, no peace

Mediators come and go but President Gbagbo wants to go on and on

  • Vol 46 No 18
  • 09/09/2005

Private coups

With over 10,000 peacekeepers in country, France and the United Nations are pressing President Laurent Gbagbo to demobilise his militias (AC Vol 46 No 14). He has been rattled by ex-army commander Mathias Yehamun Doué's call for the army to ove...

  • Vol 46 No 14
  • 08/07/2005

Peace postponed

As the disarmament and election timetables slip, the country is crumbling

  • Vol 46 No 7
  • 01/04/2005

Twixt South Africa and France

Top Ivorian politicians will be under pressure to agree terms for the October elections and to implement commitments already made in fresh talks in South Africa on 3 April. Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo, opposition leader Alassane Ouattar...

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