Côte d'Ivoire

Population: 21.1 million
GDP: $22900 million
Debt: $40.6% of GDP
Overview:

Much-delayed national elections may be held at last in 2010 – if voting rights for two million people are agreed. President Laurent Gbagbo is likely to defeat the alliance of Henri Konan Bédié and Alassane Ouattara, if the elections actually take place.

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  • Vol 44 No 3
  • 07/02/2003

No deal

France's efforts to impose a peace accord have failed. Côte d'Ivoire will now dominate the Franco-African summit in Paris on 19-21 February, far more than the controversial presence of President Robert Mugabe, who is in any case coming more to discu...

  • Vol 44 No 2
  • 24/01/2003

Foul play

Delegates talk peace in Paris but back home the killings continue and divisions deepen

  • Vol 43 No 25
  • 20/12/2002

A new front opens

France is determined to enforce the peace but may find the latest rebels hard to handle

  • Vol 43 No 22
  • 08/11/2002

Fighting for peace

Peace talks are faltering, and West African states are reluctant to join a peacekeeping force, but no one has any better ideas

  • Vol 43 No 20
  • 11/10/2002

Whose army?

The rebels are winning more territory and the government is losing more friends

  • Vol 43 No 19
  • 27/09/2002

The nightmare scenario

An army rebellion may send the once-prosperous country down the same road as its unstable neighbours

  • Vol 43 No 14
  • 12/07/2002

A la carte

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara was at last granted a nationality certificate on 28 June (AC Vol 43 No 10) but was still unable to vote in district council elections on 7 July. The government insisted only those with a new green identity card ...

  • Vol 43 No 10
  • 17/05/2002

Interregnum

Politicians are quieter, the banks are friendlier, the security men are restless

  • Vol 43 No 3
  • 08/02/2002

The barricades again

Striking policemen upset the cash-strapped government and fuel other pay demands

  • Vol 42 No 20
  • 12/10/2001

Accident-prone

P>Almost everything that could go wrong for President Laurent Gbagbo's national reconciliation conference in Abidjan is doing so (AC Vol 42 No 18). None of the three main opposition figures - ex President Henri Konan Bédié, General Robert Gu...

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