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New Accord Signals Peace
Topix - Monday, March 19, 2007
n a nationwide address on Friday March 9, 2007, Ivoirian President Laurent Gbagbo profusely thanked his colleague from Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaor for successfully overseeing the latest peace negotiations ... Comment ... more
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New Accord Signals Peace in Cte d'Ivoire
Topix - Monday, March 19, 2007
n a nationwide address on Friday March 9, 2007, Ivoirian President Laurent Gbagbo profusely thanked his colleague from Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaor for successfully overseeing the latest peace negotiations ... Comment ... more
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Ivory Coast Takes Step to Unify Military Forces
Topix - Saturday, March 17, 2007
vory Coast's president, Laurent Gbagbo , signed a decree on Friday creating a joint military command center, the first step toward unifying government and rebel forces in the West African country. Comment ... more
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First step for Ivorian peace plan
Topix - Saturday, March 17, 2007
r Gbagbo signed up to the peace deal two weeks ago Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has signed a decree creating a military structure that includes rebel forces. Comment ... more
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Ivory Coast leader creates joint army command post
Topix - Friday, March 16, 2007
vory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo signed a decree on Friday creating a joint military command centre, the first step towards unifying government and rebel forces in the West African country. Comment ... more
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A life of abject poverty and hopelessness
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
wo extremes of my life keep clashing in my mind. One is the arrival of spring in Marin - fruit trees in bloom everywhere, blossoms on every plant in my front garden. Comment ... more
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An Abidjan double-act
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
eisure Regulars Nick Kotch 11 March 2007 11:59 Cote d'Ivoire's grand old man, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, had a prodigious stock of aphorisms, but one of his favourites was "peace is not a word, it's a way of ... Comment ... more
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from rebel chief to PM
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
vory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is planning to offer rebel chief Guillaume Soro the job of prime minister to resolve a long-standing political crisis, one of his aides said. Comment ... more
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Ban Ki-Moon Calls On World to Be Ready to Help Consolidate Peace Accord
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
ollowing the signing of a peace agreement between the rival leaders in Cte d'Ivoire, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on the international community to be ready to provide key help in ... Comment ... more
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Cote d'Ivoire to begin new round of "direct dialogue" after peace deal
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
ote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday sent his envoy to the central city of Bouake for a new round of "direct dialogue" with the New Forces group after the two sides signed a recent peace deal, the ... Comment ... more
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St. Egidio community brokers peace deal in Ivory Coast
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
resident Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast has promised to do everything in his power to implement a peace agreement signed earlier this month with rebels in the African country. Comment ... more
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Cote d'Ivoire's rebel chief meets with French ambassador
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
uillaume Soro, leader of Cote d'Ivoire's rebel group New Forces , has held discussions in its stronghold of Bouake with French Ambassador Andre Janier on the agreement which was signed between Soro and ... Comment ... more
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Ivory Coast rebel chief, official in talks
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
vory Coast's rebel chief Guillaume Soro said he was set to hold talks on Tuesday with state officials on the new government planned to come into effect next month. Comment ... more
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Ban Ki-moon calls on world to be ready to help consolidate peace accord
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
The United Nations stands ready, and continues to prepare and assist Ivorian parties in implementing rapidly and in a comprehensive manner the many key tasks related to those processes," he adds in his latest ... Comment ... more
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Flood in Burkina Faso, Nigeria withdraws from Bakassi
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
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From Burkina Faso, Under the Acacias has a Gorom-Gorom Flooding Update - 23 August
Things are happening quite quickly, now thankfully. Because of the delay in being able to collect the money, our distribution has been put back to Friday. But this... more
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Burkina Faso: Flooding updae
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p> Voice in the Desert updates us on severe flooding in Gorom-Gorom, Northern Burkina Faso, where about 8,000 people have lost their homes.
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Burkina Faso: Gorom-Gorom Food Distribution
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p>Recently, floods unleashed havoc in northern Burkina Faso, rendering thousands of people homeless in Gorom-Gorom. A missionary blogger, Keith Smith who’s been working for over a decade among Fulanis in the arid region, quickly mobilised support for the victims. He now gives an update of the effort that was to... more
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Sports, Health and Politics in West Africa
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p>We begin this week’s blog round-up with sports. The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen…of Ghana blogs about the selection of a new coach for Ghana’s senior national football team, amongst other issues: As the Week Draws to a Close in Accra:: Regulation? What Telephone Regulation?;... more
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West Africa: this year’s rain has killed thousands
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p>Black Looks reports that flash floods have left thousands of people homeless in West Africa .
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Torture in Gambia, “Militocracy” in Africa, Press Freedom and Dirty Water and Gold
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 2007
p>We begin this week’s West African blogs round-up with a post in a Gambian blog, Home of the mandinmories , about a Gambian soldier being “Coerced, and tortured” over an alleged coup plot:
Browsing through the Point today, a story on the court martial... more
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