Pressure mounts on I.Coast’s Gbagbo after deadline expires
Gbagbo’s notorious “Street General”, Minister for Youth Charles Ble Goude, had urged Ivorian youths to rise up after the New Year to seize control of Alassane Ouattara’s headquarters in the waterfront Golf Hotel resort.
But as the African Union mediator in the crisis, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, began a round of shuttle diplomacy with a pledge to “protect democracy” in the west African nation, the crowds of youths failed to show.-AFP
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