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Côte d'Ivoire: Impasse deepens and prices soar
[ABIDJAN] While political rivals in Côte d’Ivoire trade barbs, diplomats make declarations and regional groups issue warnings, many Ivoirians are eating less so they can feed their children, as prices...
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Côte d'Ivoire: The economic squeeze – Briefing
[DAKAR] IRIN has produced a series of briefings exploring the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire triggered by contested elections in November 2010. Both Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are laying claim to...
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Côte d'Ivoire: Mediation and frustration
[DAKAR] Cote d’Ivoire’s crisis, triggered by a contested presidential election in November, continues to defy local and international mediation, with the situation muddied by contradictory headlines,...
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Côte d'Ivoire: Cocoa ban latest worry for growers
[ABIDJAN, 17 February 2011 (IRIN) - An embargo on the export of cocoa beans in Côte d’Ivoire is curbing income for the country’s 900,000 growers, the latest to be caught in the crossfire of the...
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Côte d'Ivoire: 'People burn tyres with the bodies to defuse the smell'
[DAKAR] When people in parts of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, see smoke these days, they don't know if just tyres are burning, or tyres and bodies, resident Paul* told IRIN. Paul lives...
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Hospitals running out of supplies in Côte d'Ivoire
[ABIDJAN] Thomas Luba, 35, had to spend half a month’s salary on his latest kidney dialysis – 10 times the usual cost. Medicines are falling far short of demand as sanctions block vessels carrying...
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Côte d’Ivoire refugees report murder and rape
[DAKAR] Ivoirians who have fled across the border to Liberia have reported incidents of rape, sexual abuse and murder to NGOs and human rights groups working in Grand Geddeh and Nimba counties....
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