Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo pressured to concede presidency
Abidjan: Ivory Coast’s bloody election standoff escalated on Saturday with world powers urging long-term President Laurent Gbagbo to make way for his old rival Alassane Ouattara. With both candidates claiming victory and the United Nations, United States and European Union all throwing their weight behind Ouattara, Ivorians waited anxiously for the next move by Gbagbo, clinging on after a decade in power. State television said early Saturday that a ceremony was planned to confirm Gbagbo in office at midday and broadcast pictures of him meeting military leaders who it said pledged allegiance to him. The Constitutional Council, the country’s highest court run by the President’s allies, had…
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