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		<title>UNOCI chief holds first meeting with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/23197</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, November 8, 2011 &#8211; African Press Organization (APO) — The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, on Tuesday met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. Speaking after the encounter which lasted almost an hour, the chief of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) appealed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma departs for Guinea on a working trip within the Mano River Union mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/22842</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Alpha Conde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Ernest Bai Koroma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE &#8211; President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has departed Freetown for the Guinean capital, Conakry, for a one day working visit to hold mutual talks with President Alpha Konde, within the mandate of the Mano River Union (MRU). The visit is being made to further initiate bilateral talks between Heads of States of sister countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo and his wife have been charged with economic crimes, aggravated theft and embezzlement of state funds in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/22146</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed M Kamara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simone Gbagbo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo, the former President of the Ivory Coast in West Africa has been charged to court along with his wife, Simone, by the country&#8217;s Public prosecutors with economic crimes including embezzlement of public funds and aggravated theft. Simplice Kouadio Koffi, the public prosecutor, said the former president, Laurent Gbagbo, is currently being detained in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reports of 26 extra-judicial killings in the Ivory Coast in the past four weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/22005</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[26 extra-judicial killngs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is reported that there were 26 extrajudicial killings in the Ivory Coast in the past four weeks, mostly blamed on fighters who helped President Alassane Ouattara take power, the UN mission reported Thursday. The killings were reported between July 11 and August 10, the rights representative for the UN&#8217;s Ivory Coast mission, Guillaume Ngefa, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Alassane Ouattara extends a hand of reconciliation to former top Gbagbo military officers</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/21579</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconciliation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s top military officers have been urged to returned to Ivory Coast Friday from exile in Ghana in a &#8216;reconciliation&#8217; move by the new government of Alassane Ouattara. A government delegation sent by Ouattara to neighbouring Ghana last week convinced Colonel Boniface Konan &#8212; a senior member of Gbagbo&#8217;s Defence and Security Forces and three other officers to go back home. Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast wants to become a major regional oil producing country</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/21570</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major oil producer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government of Ivory Coast has said it plans to boost oil drilling by year&#8217;s end to become a major regional producer. &#8221;We want to start drilling in seven wells by the end of the year to ensure a production of 300,000 barrels a day by 2020, up from 40,000 barrels now,&#8221; Adama Toungara, the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential decree announced to set up Independent commission to investigate human rights abuses committed in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/21400</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent commission]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Alassane Ouattara is setting up an independent commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during Ivory Coast&#8217;s postelection crisis earlier this year. Government spokesman Bruno Kone read a presidential decree creating the commission, after a special Cabinet meeting. The decree gives the commission six months to present its findings. The commission will attempt to explain how and why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loyalists of former President Laurent Gbagbo no longer a threat in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/21318</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choi Young-Jin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groups loyal to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo are no longer a threat to peace and order in the West African nation, according to the chief of the U.N. Mission in the country. &#8221;By and large, the ex pro-Gbagbo elements and their supporters are not likely to mount substantial challenges to law and order &#8212; a painful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s Ivorian People&#8217;s Front is now a shadow of its former self</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/21152</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivorian People's Front (FPI)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamadou Koulibaly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s Ivorian People&#8217;s Front (FPI) is now a shadow of its former self. After a decade in power and a four-month battle for power in Abdijan following last November&#8217;s disputed presidential poll, only the walls of its headquarters are standing following widespread looting during the fighting. And it suffered an even heavier blow Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s political party chief resigns</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/21105</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mamadou Koulibaly, the interim head of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s party, has announced that he was breaking with the political faction because they  refused to accept change and has also said he planned to join a new party. Koulibaly, the speaker of Ivory Coast&#8217;s national assembly who became interim head of the Ivorian People&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senegalese President accused of recruiting mercenaries from Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/20985</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senegal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Macky Sall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercenaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Abdoulaye Wade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An opposition leader in Senegal, ex-prime minister Macky Sall, has accused President Abdoulaye Wade&#8217;s regime of recruiting mercenaries from countries such as Ivory Coast Sall, who is also a former interior minister, told foreign journalists in Dakar that Wade&#8217;s regime had &#8220;recruited mercenaries with bloodstained hands from Ivory Coast, Guinea and Nigeria&#8221; to be used to &#8220;kidnap opponents and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 new peacekeeping bases to be opened by the U.N. in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/20983</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight new peacekeeping bases will be opened by the United Nations in western Ivory Coast in an effort to restore law and order ahead of upcoming legislative elections, according to the  U.N. mission chief Choi Young-jin. The bases will be located in areas where fighting was the fiercest in March, and where tens of thousands of people still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast issues international arrest warrant for Charles Ble Goude and other close aides of Laurent Gbagbo</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/20965</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West African State of Ivory Coast has issued international arrest warrants for Charles Ble Goude and other close aides of former president Laurent Gbagbo, the Abidjan prosecutor said Friday. &#8221;Arrest warrants have been issued against suspects on the run,&#8221; including Ble Goude, who led Gbagbo&#8217;s Young Patriots, and former government spokesman Ahoua Don Mello, the prosecutor Simplice Kouadio Koffi told a news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notorious mercenary accused of massacres in Ivory Coast arrested by police in Liberia</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/20646</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Thegbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most notorious mercenaries accused of leading massacres in Ivory Coast to help that country&#8217;s tyrannical leader secure his slipping grip on power is in police custody in his native Liberia, according to officials in the West African state. National Liberian Police Spokesman George Bardu said the self-proclaimed general was arrested several weeks ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Liberians charged for acting as mercenaries in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/20547</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[10 Liberians charged for mercenary activity in Ivory Coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities in the West African state of Liberia have charged ten people for allegedly acting as mercenaries in the post-election conflict in neighbouringIvory Coast. A court document said a trial date has yet to be determined. Two weeks ago, security officials announced the arrest of 12 people, including Liberians, alleged to have acted as mercenaries for ousted president Laurent Gbagbo in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alassane Ouattara inaugurated President of Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/20174</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 10:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alassane Ouattara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential inauguration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[World leaders began arriving in Ivory Coast&#8217;s administrative capital Saturday for the presidential inauguration, a ceremony that will mark the return of constitutional order and the end of a political standoff that nearly dragged the country into civil war. The stately ceremony should have taken place six months ago after Alassane Ouattara won November&#8217;s presidential election. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass grave with 68 bodies discovered in Ivory Coast stadium by the U.N.</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19988</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some U.N. investigators in Ivory Coast have determined there were at least 68 bodies spread out across 10 burial mounds in a mass grave recently discovered on a soccer field in Abidjan, the country&#8217;s commercial capital. Guillaume Ngefa, the deputy director of the human rights division of the U.N. mission in Ivory Coast, said Monday the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alassane Outtara is proclaimed President by court in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19912</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highest court in Ivory Coast has publicly reversed course  by proclaiming Alassane Ouattara president, bringing the country full circle five months after a disputed vote which nearly dragged the nation into civil war. The head of the constitutional council, Paul Yao N&#8217;Dre — previously one of the staunchest supporters of the country&#8217;s strongman Laurent Gbagbo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was renegade warlord Ibrahim &#8216;IB&#8217; Coulibaly assassinated in the Ivory Coast?</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19750</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ibrahim IB Coulibaly, the renegade warlord who made no secret of his presidential ambitions, said he was being targeted for assassination just two days before he died this week. A few days earlier, during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Coulibaly exuded confidence. He did not seem like a man who would take his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast&#8217;s fragile peace is under threat by feuding warlords</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19645</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year-old feud between rival warlords came to a head as volleys of gunshots erupted again in Abidjan that threatensIvory Coast&#8217;s fragile peace. It is unclear if technocrat President Alassane Ouattara can control any of the six warlords who helped install him in power by ousting former strongman Laurent Gbagbo, who is under arrest. The latest fighting is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ibrahim &#8220;IB&#8221; Coulibaly must work with President Ouattara for a lasting peace in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19556</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibrahim "IB" Coulibaly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was tension in Abidjan as Ivory Coast&#8217;s new army turned its guns on a former ally who helped install the democratically elected president but failed on Thursday to defeat his forces who are dug into a neighborhood of the city. Infighting among forces who recognize President Alassane Ouattara also erupted Wednesday in the southwestern cocoa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gbagbo&#8217;s family members are freed in the Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19470</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeannot Ahoussou, the new justice minister in the Ivory Coast, has stated that most family members and domestic workers of disgraced strongman Laurent Gbagbo have been freed from detention. Ahoussou, made the announcement on national television. He said that the government released about 70 out of about about 120 people arrested when Ouattara&#8217;s forces stormed the presidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.N. played no role in regime change in the Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19443</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, April 15, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; The United Nations peacekeeping chief on Friday denied that UN troops were used to achieve regime change in Ivory Coast where international forces knocked out weapons used by deposed strongman Laurent Gbagbo. Peacekeeping head Alain Le Roy said forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara may have taken advantage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockpiles of arms discovered at presidential palace in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19425</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 15, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Long green crates are piled high in the corridors beneath the kitchens of Ivory Coast&#8217;s presidential palace, holding hundreds of rockets stockpiled by deposed leader Laurent Gbagbo. Gbagbo&#8217;s forces abandoned the palace, on a promontory looking onto the port of the central Plateau business district, Tuesday after the besieged president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Street General&#8221; Charles Ble Goude captured in Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19421</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 15, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Ivory Coast&#8217;s slow recovery after four months of bloodshed gained pace Friday as Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s victorious regime captured ousted strongman Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s most notorious henchman. Alongside the arrest of Charles Ble Goude, known as the &#8221;street general&#8221; of the feared Young Patriots movement, a pro-Ouattara newspaper reopened and the government declared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo has been moved to the north of Ivory Coast and will stay in a presidential residence</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19353</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 13, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Detained former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo was moved on Wednesday from Abidjan to the north of the country where he remains under UN guard, officials said. Gbagbo had been at the official headquarters of his arch-rival President Alassane Ouattara, in Ivory Coast&#8217;s main city, since his capture on Monday. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo has been placed under house arrest</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19314</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 13, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Ivory Coast&#8217;s former president Laurent Gbagbo, arrested Monday, has been placed under house arrest, President Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s government announced late Tuesday without saying where. In a statement Justice Minister Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio recalled how the former strongman had been arrested after fighting between government forces and pro-Gbagbo troops &#8220;assisted by Liberian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gbagbo&#8217;s Interior Minister captured along with him has died from his wounds</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19308</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 12, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; A former interior minister who was arrested along with Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo died Tuesday in circumstances that remained unclear, sources said. Desire Tagro was seen to be wounded on his arrival at the Golf Hotel, rival Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s temporary headquarters, to which Gbagbo was also taken on Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raila Odinga says Gbagbo should have taken teaching job offered by President Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19283</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory-coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Gbagbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Raila Odinga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, April 12, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Tuesday that Ivory Coast&#8217;s Laurent Gbagbo had stubbornly refused mediation offers and should have accepted a job as a lecturer at a US university. Odinga, who was in December appointed as the African Union&#8217;s envoy to the Ivorian crisis that erupted after the disputed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simone Gbagbo &#8211; Profile of Ivory Coast&#8217;s one-time &#8216;Iron Lady&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19278</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 12, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; The one-time &#8220;Iron Lady&#8221; of Ivory Coast, Simone Gbagbo stood firmly by her husband Laurent through the highs and lows of his presidency including his ignominious arrest from a bunker this week. She was dragged out with Laurent Gbagbo in Monday&#8217;s dramatic end to a nearly five-month fight for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After helping democracy prevail in Ivory Coast Sarkozy offers 400-million-euro aid package</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19269</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS, April 12, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; France on Tuesday said it would give a one-off 400-million-euro aid package to its former colony Ivory Coast, aimed particularly at meeting emergency needs in the commercial capital Abidjan. Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announced the aid after meeting her Ivorian counterpart Charles Koffi Diby in Ndjamena the day after forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo is no longer the President of Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19027</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COTONOU, April 6, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; France&#8217;s cooperation minister Wednesday said Laurent Gbagbo must exit the head of state&#8217;s residence and accept he is no longer president, as his rival&#8217;s forces sought to remove him from his bunker. &#8221;Mr. Gbagbo must understand once and for all that he did not win the elections &#8230;,&#8221; Henri de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo calls for an end to fighting in the Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19251</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 11, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Laurent Gbagbo called Monday for an end to fighting in Ivory Coast hours after the strongman was captured by forces loyal to his rival for the presidency at the climax of a deadly months-long crisis. &#8221;I want us to lay down arms and to enter the civilian part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gbagbo&#8217;s capture brings about a new start for Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19248</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS, April 11, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Western governments hailed Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s capture Monday as an opportunity for a return to peace in Ivory Coast and said the fate of the former president should serve as a warning to other dictators. As supporters of his rival Alassane Outtara predicted that Gbagbo would now have to answer for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo &#8211; Profile of the Ivorian who held on to power at all costs</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19242</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 11, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Laurent Gbagbo, arrested Monday after hiding out for days in a bunker, dragged his country into disaster by refusing for months to accept he lost November presidential elections. The 65-year-old&#8217;s dogged ability to hang onto power is nothing new, having ruled the world&#8217;s top cocoa producer since 2000, including for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Gbagbo is captured alive with his wife and son and will face trial</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19237</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 11, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s forces, backed by French and UN troops, captured his besieged rival Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan on Monday at the climax of a deadly months-long crisis. Gbagbo, who has held power since 2000 and stubbornly refused to admit defeat in November&#8217;s presidential election, was detained and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French and UN forces engage in action to dismantle Gbagbo&#8217;s heavy arms in Abidjan</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19202</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 10, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; UN and French forces in Ivory Coast attacked positions of troops loyal to strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Sunday, a day after an attack on the base of his rival, UN-recognised president Alassane Ouattara. A spokesman for the UN mission in Ivory Coast (UNOCI) said its peacekeepers and France&#8217;s Licorne force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough is enough &#8211; Gbagbo must be removed from power by force!</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19163</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmed M Kamara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world has sat by and observed as thousand are being slaughtered and killed by a man whose insatiable thirst for power can only be matched by his greed and intransigence, demonstrated so clearly as he disregards the repeated calls by every credible government in the world, for him to step down. Laurent Gbagbo has shown he is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gbagbo sends his troops to attack Alassane Ouattara&#8217;s hotel</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19160</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN, April 9, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Forces loyal to Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo launched an attack Saturday on the headquarters of his rival, UN-recognised president Alassane Ouattara, in a major escalation of the battle for control of the country. Witnesses told AFP the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, where Ouattara has been holed up since disputed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights Watch say Gbagbo&#8217;s forces have killed and raped hundreds in the Ivory Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/19142</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newstime Africa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, April 9, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Forces loyal to Ivory&#8217;s Coast&#8217;s internationally-recognized president Alassane Ouattara killed or raped hundreds of people and burned villages during a rampage in late March, Human Rights Watch said Saturday. The rights group revealed new evidence of summary killings of supporters of strongman Laurent Gbagbo in the far west of [...]]]></description>
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