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Untangling the conflict in the Ivory Coast

The battle in the Ivory Coast between forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo is more complex than it may seem.

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Laurent Gbagbo Faces International Criminal Court

Conflict & Justice
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Truth and Reconciliation in Ivory Coast

Conflict & Justice
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Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo detained

Conflict & Justice

Ivory Coast: Fight Continues as Gbagbo Refuses to Surrender

Washington and the Ivory Coast conflict

Conflict & Justice

Laurent Gbagbo remains holed up in the presidential palace in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjian. Marco Werman talks with William Fitzgerald, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs at the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs.

President Gbagbo’s Game of Chicken

There are reports that president-elect Alassane Ouattara’s soldiers have stormed the compound where former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has been holed up in a bunker. There were reports Tuesday that Gbagbo was negotiating his surrender. However, he then denied these reports. Will  Laurent Gbagbo hand over power or try to lead the Ivory Coast deeper […]

Thousands Flee Ivory Coast as Violence Continues

Ivory Coast’s bloody conflict continues, as forces loyal to President-elect Alassane Ouattara battle for power against the forces of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to step down. Thousands have reportedly been killed since last November’s election, many of them civilians; and tens of thousands more have lost their homes. Nearly 85,000 people have fled […]

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Ivory Coast leader defies UN’s demands to step down

Global Politics

To explain what this ongoing situation means to the people of Ivory Coast is Mamadou Diouf, Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. Former UN Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Peter Galbraith also joins us.

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Officials Urge Incumbent Ivory Coast President to Step Down

Global Politics

After a public debate over voter fraud and outbreaks of violence, West African officials are urging incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo to step down from the top post of the Ivory Coast. Since the country’s election on November 28, President Gbagbo and challenger Alassane Ouattara ? widely recognized as the winner of the election ? have […]