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Ivory Coast to put troops in rebel zones for poll (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Soldiers are briefed ahead of presidential elections at a military camp of Koumassi in Abidjan October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Luc GnagoReuters - Ivory Coast’s military and rebels will deploy 4,000 extra troops in rebel territory to secure a presidential run-off election on November 28, they said on Friday, ahead of…

Ivory Coast holds reconciliation poll at last (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Supporters of Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo, also a presidential candidate for FPI Reuters - Ivory Coast finally holds a long-delayed presidential election on Sunday that is meant to reunite a nation split in two by war and re-launch West Africa’s former star…

Dutch judgment in Ivory Coast toxic dumping case (AFP)

July 20th, 2010

A man points to unusable fields near a warning for a toxic zone still unsafe after the discovery of hundreds of tonnes of dumped toxic waste near Abidjan in 2006, which Ivorian authorities have said killed 17 people and made thousands ill.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - A Dutch court will hand down judgment Friday in the first trial of a Swiss-based company whose chartered ship dumped waste alleged to have killed 17 people in…

Pope’s ivory tower past adds to his detachment (AP)

April 11th, 2010

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than forty books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and briliant mind. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than 40 books and winning a devoted following…

Tanzania, Zambia demand one-off sales of ivory (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this Saturday July 18, 2009 file photo, a Kenya Wildlife Service warden stands in a storage room holding elephant ivory impounded since 1989. Tanzania and Zambia are requesting a U.N. conservation meeting approve one-off sales of their ivory stocks, despite criticism from conservationists that they are not doing enough to crack down on poaching which has intensified in recent years. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)AP - A proposal by Tanzania to weaken the 21-year-old ban on ivory sales was rejected by a U.N. conservation meeting Monday over fears the east African country has been…

Kenya elephant deaths soar as ivory sales debated (AP)

March 12th, 2010

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Elephants use their trunks to smell for possible danger in the Tsavo East national park, Kenya. Beginning this weekend, the binternational/b community will debate proposals from Tanzania and Zambia to allow a one-time sale of ivory to clear out backlogs of stockpiles that often come from elephants who die naturally, or those that are killed. Kenya has seen elephant deaths from poachers shoot up seven-fold the last three years, after a similar sale was allowed in 2007. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating…

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