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The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire () or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea.
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N. official in Ivory Coast said Thursday he is willing to talk to Laurent Gbagbo , who is refusing to relinquish power after a disputed election. The African Union suspended the country's membership in the latest sign of growing pressure.Gbagbo has retreated further and further in recent days, encircling himself with hard-liners and going so far as to refuse a telephone call over the weekend from U.S. President Barack Obama .The United Nations reviewed results from 20,000 polling stations before concluding that Gbagbo had lost by "an irrefutable margin" to opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.U.N. Special Representative Choi Young-jin arrived Thursday at the Golf Hotel and met behind closed doors with Ouattara, who has been forced to use the hotel as his headquarters because Gbagbo is not allowing him access to the presidential palace. The hotel has turned into a fortress, protected by sandbags, coils of barbed wire and armored personnel carriers amid rumors the military under...
As civil war grips the West African nation of Ivory Coast , critics claim that President Obama is neglecting a potential crisis in Africa even as he wades into confl...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast's strongman leader Laurent Gbagbo holed up in a bunker inside the presidential residence Tuesday, defiantly maintaining he won th...
The mortar shell landed just feet (meters) from Sidibe Siaka as he and his seven close friends were eating lunch at their usual spot in their Abidjan neighborhood. W...
Ivorians unevenly followed a general strike aimed at pressuring their incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down, largely sticking to the same fracture lines that ...
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo sworn in for new term; U.N. says his opponent won race.
Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo orders all U.N. peacekeepers to immediately leave Ivory Coast.
French Embassy in Ivory Coast : Strongman Laurent Gbagbo has been arrested by opponent's forces.
Residents say UN, French forces fire rockets on house of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to maintain sanctions on Ivory Coast for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on importing rough di...
The noose of international pressure tightened further around Laurent Gbagbo as the top U.N. official in Ivory Coast said Gbagbo's challenger had won the presidential...
Ivory Coast's president vowed Monday that those responsible for hundreds of killings last year in the country's west will be punished, although he did not mention th...
All Ivorians will be held responsible for post-electoral violence that killed thousands of people, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said Wednesday.Ouattara to...
The U.N. Security Council extended its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast on Monday, hours after the United Nations' top envoy in the West African country said arme...
French helicopters on an evacuation mission were fired upon by forces supporting the country's strongman as they tried to retain power in Ivory Coast's largest city,...
The Ivory Coast army colonel arrived in New York on Aug. 29, and authorities say he planned to return home days later with $4 million in guns and ammunition his coun...
An official says that more than 170 Ivory Coast ex-combatants being held in a refugee camp in Ghana's west have escaped.Ken Dzirasah, chairman of the Ghana Refugee B...
The United Nations said Monday it was still working to verify a report that Ivory Coast's defiant leader had received three military attack helicopters from Belarus ...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast's entrenched incumbent president imposed a no-fly order on U.N. aircraft in Ivory Coast, possibly complicating the return to the ...
A debate over who won elections in Ivory Coast would set back attempts to resolve a crisis in the West African country, a South African official said Thursday.Speaki...
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