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Cote d'Ivoire: Former Rebel Joins Government

Cote d'Ivoire: Former Rebel Joins Government The rebel leader Guillaume Soro has taken up his seat in the government of national unity, which has held its first full meeting since 2004. Mr Soro had stayed away from the economic capital Abidjan for more than a year, citing security fears, before he returned on March 14th. Mr Soro controls the northern half of Cote d'Ivoire after he launched a rebellion in September 2002. Abidjan remains in the hands of forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo. Mr Soro, Reconstruction Minister, was accompanied by UN bodyguards. President Gbagbo welcomed Mr Soro's participation in cabinet as a ‘‘positive evolution of the peace process’’, according to an official record of the meeting. ‘‘The war is finished but the crisis, the consequences of the war continue and must be juggled with the participation of everyone’’, he said. Mr Soro had refused to return to Abidjan since he fled when his rebels came under attack from forces loyal to Mr Gbagbo in October 2004. In February he and two major opposition leaders had an unprecedented meeting with President Gbagbo in the capital, Yamoussoukro. Politicians from all sides stress the importance of holding free and fair presidential elections in October. However, with the country still divided in two and armed groups roaming both the loyalist south and the rebel‐held north, this remains a distant ambition rather than a racing certainty. Some 10,000 French and UN peacekeepers monitor a buffer zone between the two sides. ( BBC News Online 16/3 ) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Copyright © 2006 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2006.00267.x
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The rebel leader Guillaume Soro has taken up his seat in the government of national unity, which has held its first full meeting since 2004. Mr Soro had stayed away from the economic capital Abidjan for more than a year, citing security fears, before he returned on March 14th. Mr Soro controls the northern half of Cote d'Ivoire after he launched a rebellion in September 2002. Abidjan remains in the hands of forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo. Mr Soro, Reconstruction Minister, was accompanied by UN bodyguards. President Gbagbo welcomed Mr Soro's participation in cabinet as a ‘‘positive evolution of the peace process’’, according to an official record of the meeting. ‘‘The war is finished but the crisis, the consequences of the war continue and must be juggled with the participation of everyone’’, he said. Mr Soro had refused to return to Abidjan since he fled when his rebels came under attack from forces loyal to Mr Gbagbo in October 2004. In February he and two major opposition leaders had an unprecedented meeting with President Gbagbo in the capital, Yamoussoukro. Politicians from all sides stress the importance of holding free and fair presidential elections in October. However, with the country still divided in two and armed groups roaming both the loyalist south and the rebel‐held north, this remains a distant ambition rather than a racing certainty. Some 10,000 French and UN peacekeepers monitor a buffer zone between the two sides. ( BBC News Online 16/3 )

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Apr 1, 2006

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