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| Cote d'Ivoire's Ouattara orders suspension of country's cocoa, coffee exports |
| 2011-01-25 |
| (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara ordered the suspension of the country's cocoa and coffee exports, media reports quoted a statement from Ouattara's government as saying on Monday. Ouattara was backed by the international community including the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society (UN), the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United States and La Belle France as winner of the West African country's presidential elections, although the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refuses to step down. After the presidential run-off held on Nov. 28 last year, Ouattara was declared winner by the electoral commission while the Constitutional Council, which has the final say on the results of the poll, said Gbagbo won the vote. Gbagbo was sworn in as the new president by the Constitutional Council, and Ouattara also swore himself in as the president. Gbagbo has refused to step down, and retains control of government buildings, state television and the security forces. The AU mediator and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga last week ended his mission to Cote d'Ivoire without making any breakthrough. Gbagbo has rejected Odinga as mediator, saying he is "biased." |
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