West African leaders to pressure Gbagbo again
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – West African leaders are headed back to Ivory Coast in an effort to persuade incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to cede power more than a month after the election. A delegation from the regional bloc ECOWAS is due to arrive in Abidjan later Monday. They will be joined by the Kenyan prime minister, who is serving as the African Union’s emissary. ECOWAS has threatened to use military force to remove Gbagbo if he doesn’t step down, but the bloc says it wants to give negotiations more time. The United Nations and others say that Gbagbo lost the Nov. 28 runoff election to Alassane Ouattara. The U.N. says at least 173 people have been killed in violence over the…
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