On a road that curves around a swath of vegetation at the far north of this commercial capital, cars leave territory controlled by strongman Laurent Gbagbo at a checkpoint consisting of a pile of logs. Beyond it is the first barricade manned by gunmen loyal to the country’s internationally recognised president Alassane Outtara. The line of control is slowly creeping south, toward the presidential palace Gbagbo refuses to let go. It’s been over 100 days since Gbagbo was declared the loser of the Ivory Coast’s presidential election, and for most of that time the residents of the neighbourhood called PK-18 waited for the international community to remove the defiant leader, who first grabbed…
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