Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo decries foreign intervention

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast-Ivory Coast’s incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to cede power, has accused world leaders of launching a coup to oust him. Meanwhile, the U.N. has warned Gbagbo supporters not to attack the hotel where his political rival is being protected by hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers. A Gbagbo youth leader has called for internationally recognized leader Alassane Ouattara to leave the hotel by Saturday. By midday, however, no Gbagbo supporters had shown up at the hotel to contest Ouattara’s presence. The United Nations has said that the volatile West African nation once divided in two faces a real risk of return to civil war, but Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, a…

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Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo decries foreign intervention

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