Ivory Coast: UN confirms Gbagbo's surrender
11 April 2011
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President Alassane Ouattara's history in the government of Ivory Coast is marked by financial questions and "the bleeding of Africa", a leading Ivorian academic tells Channel 4 News.
Alassane Ouattara calls for peace in Ivory Coast after the capture of his presidential rival, Gbagbo, on Monday. But he faces a huge challenge uniting a country torn by civil war.
The Ivory Coast's defiant president Laurent Gbagbo regains ground in Abidjan, as UN human rights workers find more than 100 bodies in 24 hours.
The UN's Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights tells Channel 4 News 118 bodies found in west Ivory coast were subjected to "a horrendous level of cruelty" indicating mercernary activity.
Channel 4 News photo gallery of the bloody internal fight for power in the Ivory Coast.
The spokesman for Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo tells Channel 4 News "the stage is set for genocide" and there can be no more negotiations while the UN, rebels and French fire on Gbagbo's residence.
A United Nations commander tells Channel 4 News "the war is over" after a fierce assault on Abidjan, as Laurent Gbagbo appears to be close to surrender and seeking UN protection.
Comment
Ivory Coast's prosperity, largely built on cocoa exports, has proved part of the country's undoing; part of the trigger that set South against North.
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