Ivory Coast Votes In Election To Reunite Country
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) – Millions of people voted largely without incident on Sunday in a long-overdue presidential election in Ivory Coast, the final step toward reuniting the country eight years after a civil war divided it in two. Some of President Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters built barricades in the western cities of Divo and Lakota, in an effort to prevent voters for opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, from getting to the polls, said Christian Preda, head of the European Union election observation mission. In the central city of Gagnoa, Ouattara supporters blocked access to a downtown polling station,…
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