African leaders back Ivory Coast sanctions
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African leaders supported an arms embargo and other UN sanctions on the Ivory Coast government and rebels on Sunday. While they did, Ivory Coast President Laurent
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- President Laurent Gbagbo has called on the United Nations to name and impose sanctions on countries that helped rebels wage a civil war in the West African state, Ivorian media reported yesterday.
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The Security Council voted unanimously, 15 to 0, Monday night to impose an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast and to extend sanctions to include forbidding travel
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said he&#39;s ordered new aircraft and vowed to buy more if necessary after France wiped out the country&#39;s two-plane air force in response to a strike on the former colonial ruler&#39;s own troops.
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OUAGADOUGOU  - Leaders from 36 French-speaking countries wrapped up a summit in Burkina Faso, with a call to the protagonists in the Ivory Coast conflict to implement a French-brokered pact to restore peace.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said  in comments broadcast Thursday that a U.N. arms embargo could  help contain rebels fighting the government, but vowed to  create a "real army" and rebuild his air force.
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A summit of French-speaking nations is to focus on the civil war in Ivory Coast which resumed three weeks ago, ministers say. The Francophone summit in Burkina Faso is due to consider a motion condemning the actions of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- All sides in Ivory Coast's conflict have agreed on measures to revive a moribund peace plan and speed up its implementation, South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday at the end of a mediation mission.
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November 15, 2004 -- ABUJA, Nigeria - West African leaders held a crisis summit yesterday over unrest in Ivory Coast, as the beleaguered country&#39;s president took a tough stance, sacking his army chief and installing a more hard-line officer in his place
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âLa Francophonie has a large political role to play, especially to prevent conflicts,â said Deiss. The French bloc adopted a resolution on Ivory Coast after talks on Saturday in the Burkina Faso capital
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Canadian and European Union leaders welcomed Thursday the African Union&#39;s decision to increase seven-fold its monitoring force in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, and pledged to support the effort.
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African countries agree to extend a ban on ivory exports, after a one-off sale of some ivory stocks.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - African leaders said on  Monday they were determined to resolve conflicts in Ivory  Coast, Congo and Sudan's Darfur region to stop the violence  affecting other countries, but called for international  support.
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South Africa on Monday threw its weight behind a proposed UN arms embargo on conflict-wracked Ivory Coast ahead of a crucial vote on the issue in the Security Council.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Ivory Coast rebels vowed on  Monday to repel army attacks robustly as the U.N. Security  Council was poised to slap an immediate arms embargo on all  sides of the conflict in the world's top cocoa producer.
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West African leaders meet in Nigeria on Sunday to discuss a deepening crisis in Ivory Coast, one of the region&#39;s former economic powerhouses where a
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate UN sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s hard-line government