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	World Affairs Board - Analysis: Ivory Coast Civil War
		For many years, Ivory Coast was considered the most prosperous and stable nation in the region and it welcomed millions of immigrant workers from neighboring countries, who account for a quarter of the country's 16 million population.
		Man is in the heart of Ivory Coast's coffee-growing region, which is surrounded by tall grass and trees in a forested region, and is known as the Land of the 18 Mountains.
		On December 6, it was reported that French soldiers in Ivory Coast had discovered in an area of western Ivory Coast known as Monoko-Zoy a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of victims killed in ongoing fighting between loyalists and rebels in the west of the country.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=1974 (6519 words)

	Crimes of War > On The News
		Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s political capital, operates now in a climate of fear, with the local population beginning to feel that the police and security forces are akin to the death squads of Guatemala or El Salvador.
		The tragedy is that the Ivory Coast – which had the third largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa and is the world’s largest producer of cocoa –was once a beacon of stability in a region dominated by bloodshed.
		The civil war in Ivory Coast is governed by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and by Additional Protocol II of 1977 (both of which Ivory Coast is a party to).
	www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-ivory.html (2230 words)

	Civil War in the Ivory Coast
		The latter, in turn, withdrew their ministers from the government of national reconciliation and affirmed that they would not disarm as long as the laws were not reformed according to the schedule fixed by Accra III to the spirit and letter of that agreement.
		The 43rd BIMA, the French military base in the Ivory Coast, was surrounded, and an attempt was made to block the Abidjan airport to prevent all arrivals and departures.
		The PCRCI considers that this reactionary war has shown to the people of the Ivory Coast the true face of French imperialism, which is an exploiter and criminal.
	www.mltranslations.org /IvoryCoast/civilwar.htm (1539 words)

	The New Yorker: Online Only: Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ivory Coast's stability and prosperity were founded on cacao exports and the fairly benign dictatorship of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who was repressive and corrupt but who did not play the destructive game of ethnic politics.
		The most immediate cause of the current civil war in Ivory Coast was the exclusion from the 2000 Presidential election of one candidate because of his foreign parentage.
		But West Africa's wars have been young people's wars (manipulated by their power-hungry elders), and these young people are no different from their peers in other places, in terms of being vulnerable to the power of images.
	www.newyorker.com /online/content?031103on_onlineonly01 (2042 words)

	Ivory Coast Conflict
		After achieving its independence from France in 1960 the Ivory Coast, or Côte d'Ivoire, became a model of political stability and economic prosperity, avoiding many of the pitfalls that plagued other African nations experiencing the difficulties of sovereignty.
		During his presidency from 1960 to 1993 Houphouet-Boigny cultivated close political ties with West which insulated the Ivory Coast from the turmoil associated with the military uprisings and Marxist experimentations that characterized the region.
		By maintaining an environment of stability, the Ivory Coast was able to develop its economy, attracting foreign investment and becoming the world’s largest producer of cocoa.
	globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/ivory-coast.htm (736 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Out of Business in Ivory Coast
		But five months into a civil war that has divided Ivory Coast in half and killed thousands of its people, Bezou is lucky to sell a bedspread for $20, and sometimes lets them go for as little as $5.
		In addition, Ivory Coast's neighbors are reeling from the effects of the war, illustrating how political instability sends shock waves across a continent struggling to promote itself as a place to do business, economists and other analysts say.
		Ivory Coast was once a symbol of African economic triumph, a place where even poor villages deep in the jungle had electricity and water, where the commercial capital, Abidjan, boasted sparkling skyscrapers, glitzy chocolate shops and French bakeries serving glazed fruit tarts and butter croissants.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44800-2003Feb21?language=printer (1061 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Ivory Coast slips toward civil war
		Ivory Coast troops and rebel soldiers have exchanged gunfire on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Bouake, held by mutinous soldiers for more than two weeks.
		As the build-up continued, Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said on Sunday he had refused to sign a ceasefire with the rebels.
		The BBC's Paul Welsh in Ivory Coast says members of the mediation team are not convinced - and diplomats agree with the Ghanaian defence minister that the government has been deliberately dragging its feet.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/2303879.stm (480 words)

	Lessons From Ivory Coast's Descend Into Anarchy
		Reports from the Ivory Coast indicate that the West African country, until recently regarded as the most peaceful and prosperous in the region, is rapidly descending into anarchy reminiscent of the civil wars in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
		This statement is true to the unfolding civil war in the Ivory Coast, which contributed, to a large extent, to the destruction and slaughter of hundreds of thousand of people in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone during both countries' civil wars.
		Ivory Coast was known to host the largest number of refugees in West Africa, including hundreds of thousands that fled civil upheavals in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone during the 1990s.
	www.theperspective.org /lessonsfromic.html (2381 words)

	Chaos in Ivory Coast: Roots and Consequences by Daniel Chirot - The Globalist > > Global Security
		The simmering civil war in Ivory Coast erupted once again in early November 2004, when the government’s army broke the ceasefire with rebel forces by trying to punch through French and U.N. military barriers separating the two sides.
		Ivory Coast once had a booming economy, but a lack of adequate reinvestment in agriculture and mismanagement led to stagnation in the 1980s and 1990s, while the population continued to grow.
		Ivory Coast once had a booming economy, but lack of adequate reinvestment in agriculture and mismanagement led to stagnation.
	www.theglobalist.com /dbweb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4264 (1548 words)

	Ivory Coast Foes Declare End to War - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Ivory Coast's civil war foes agreed on Wednesday after talks in South Africa to end war once and for all in the world's top cocoa grower, a country that has been split by conflict since the end of 2002.
		Rebels known as the New Forces seized the north of Ivory Coast after a failed attempt to oust President Laurent Gbagbo in September 2002.
		Gbagbo, rebel leader Guillaume Soro and Ivory Coast's main opposition politicians -- Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bedie -- all signed the deal after the Pretoria talks, dubbed a last chance to salvage peace in the former French colony.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/ivory/2005/0406mbekisuccess.htm (712 words)

	Guardian \| New hope of Ivory Coast peace as rebels join talks
		France's efforts to end civil war in Ivory Coast received a boost yesterday when rebels based in the west of the country agreed to halt hostilities and pledged to join the main rebel group at Paris peace talks.
		The war in Ivory Coast, the world's leading cocoa producer, has split the nation of 16 million along ethnic lines and destroyed its reputation as a rock of stability in often turbulent west Africa.
		France has sent 2,500 troops to Ivory Coast, its biggest African intervention since the 1980s, fearing the conflict would destabilise the whole region and put in danger 20,000 French nationals.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4579707-111582,00.html (629 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Ivory Coast near to civil war after attack on peacekeepers
		West Africa's leading peace broker made an emergency trip to Ivory Coast last night to try to prevent a resumption of the civil war after days of violence intensified with an attack on UN peacekeepers.
		Mr Obasanjo took a lead role in negotiations to reunite Ivory Coast when it was divided between a government-held south and rebel-controlled north after a civil war in 2002.
		The latest unrest erupted in Ivory Coast on Monday after a UN-backed international mediation group recommended that parliament's expired mandate not be renewed.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,,1689613,00.html (451 words)

	The Horrors of War by Laurence M. Vance
		Although the United Nations was founded "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind," there have been more conflicts in the world since the founding of the UN than during any previous period in history.
		To protest the war is to be a traitor.
		To get a war to work – to get men to kill other men that have never aggressed against them and that they don’t even know – the state must do two things: convince men to love the state and to hate the members of other states.
	www.lewrockwell.com /vance/vance14.html (4759 words)

	Anti-French mood roils Ivory Coast \| csmonitor.com
		France is not trying to destabilize the Ivory Coast government but enforce security, the French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said in a statement.
		An emergency UN Security Council meeting in New York condemned the bombing raid as a violation of the May 2003 cease-fire and gave the 10,000-strong peacekeeping force permission to use "all necessary means" to stop the fighting.
		Some 4,000 French troops are deployed in Ivory Coast in a somewhat unconventional arrangement in which they are both part of and separate from the UN peacekeeping force.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1108/p06s01-woaf.htm (618 words)

	Ivory Coast War Could Spread - CBS News
		Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa producer and one of West Africa's leading economic powers, is battling a 4-month-old uprising by rebels who want President Laurent Gbagbo out, blaming him in a surge of ethnic tensions and bloodshed in that country.
		Ivory Coast's rebel, government and political parties are now in talks in Paris.
		Ivory Coast's government, which has sought greater assistance from France against its rebels, has claimed before that rebels have attacked from Liberia.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/06/08/world/main557546.shtml (603 words)

	MyUSTINET News: Civil War In Ivory Coast Starts Anew
		ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Rebel fighters clashed with government troops, and warplanes struck rebel positions in the north Friday, escalating hostilities a day after army hard-liners broke a cease-fire and relaunched Ivory Coast's civil war after more than a year of relative peace.
		Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and West Africa's former economic powerhouse, has been split into rebel north and government south since a September 2002 coup attempt launched the country into civil war.
		The civil war killed thousands and forced more than a million people from their homes.
	news.usti.net /newsstory/world.top/2/wed/aq/Ayb59756575.Rhac_EO5.html (558 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Spoiling for a fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		With 3,000 legionnaires currently stationed in the Ivory Coast, the name of France is already written in muddy letters in the book of the Ivorian government and its southern and predominantly animist and Christian supporters.
		Still, in a flurry of diplomatic activity, representatives of the Ivory Coast Patriotic Movement better known by its French acronym (MPCI) -- the main armed opposition group based in the northern, predominantly Muslim half of the country -- are touring West African capitals for discussions with regional heads of state and government.
		The hoopla over Ivory Coast began on 19 September 2002 when troops mutinied and overpowered forces loyal to the Ivorian government in the northern half of the country.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/626/in1.htm (1187 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: War, prostitution fuel AIDS epidemic in Ivory Coast
		A foot soldier in a second battle raging alongside Ivory Coast's civil war, she is on the front line fighting AIDS.
		Since Ivory Coast collapsed into war in 2002, young women trapped by poverty in the rebel-held north of the West African nation have become increasingly desperate to find cash.
		Ivory Coast's HIV infection rate stood at about 13 percent of the population before the war.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/2005/RE050716.html (1040 words)

	Ivory Coast Peace Remains Elusive
		Ivory Coast has yet to witness the levels of violence prevalent in conflicts in neighboring Liberia or Sierra Leone.
		Ivory Coast is under a U.N. arms embargo and there have been increasing calls for sanctions to be applied as a way of forcing progress in implementing peace.
		Both sides in the conflict are commemorating the third anniversary of the start of the war, with a military parade and athletic competitions in Bouake, and a ceremony for war victims, as well as a peace concert in Abidjan.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-09-19-voa34.cfm (677 words)

	wais:france: ivory coast december 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The civil war in the Ivory Coast began in 2002.
		The northern part of the country is held by rebels, and hard-liners in the Ivory Coast military vowed to retake the territory held by the rebels.
		The parallels between the French position in the Ivory Coast and the American one in Iraq are obvious.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week120104/france_041201_ivorycoast.htm (563 words)

	Epochtimes English Edition-
		From the northern stronghold of the former rebels, to the bastion of forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo in the south, Ivorians were told the new unity government set up in January was faltering in efforts to stabilize the west African country.
		Both groups declared the civil war officially over on July 4, five months after the peace pact was signed, but the country remains divided and its government barely operational.
		Ivory Coast, the world's foremost cocoa producer, was once a beacon of stability for turbulent west Africa, but now its administration and judicial system carry out almost all their work in the south, and schools and hospitals function little or not at all in rebel-held areas.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/3-9-22/6926.html (702 words)

	Ivory Coast reels from war - World News - MSNBC.com
		The influx is a signal of the upheaval that Ivory Coast’s 2-week-old crisis threatens to unleash on a fragile region.
		Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, elected in 2000, said he was frustrated with rebels’ failure to disarm under a peace agreement.
		Zahid Hassan, a member of the 15,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force posted in Liberia since the end of its wars in 2003, said peacekeepers are trying to keep an extra presence on the border, fearing combatants may cross into Liberia to obtain weapons and avoid a 2-day-old U.N. arms embargo on Ivory Coast.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6515572 (956 words)

	All Headline News - Ivory Coast Civil War Killing Elephants - July 18, 2006
		ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AHN) -Among the sufferers in Ivory Coast's civil war have been the elephants which originally gave the country its name.
		Elephants were widely distributed throughout West Africa for centuries but populations collapsed in the early 20th century after intensive hunting during the colonial period.
		Ivory Coast was once one of the largest sources of West African ivory.
	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/2234671818 (258 words)

	Families struggling to cope in Burkina Faso following civil war in neighbouring Ivory Coast /01.04
		The civil war in the Ivory Coast has had a devastating impact on neighbouring Burkina Faso, which is the third poorest country in the world.
		Burkinabe immigrants working in Ivory Coast have had to flee because of violent attacks and are now struggling to make a living in their own country.
		Aldjanatou Younoussi's husband is still in the Ivory Coast, but he is no longer able to send money as he is too frightened to leave the house to go to work.
	www.christianaid.org.uk /news/features/0401burkina.htm (714 words)

	Ivory Coast - A ‘Civil War’ that is French and Neo-Colonial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Report of the International Commission of Enquiry on the allegations of violations of human rights in Ivory Coast between 19 September and 15 October 2004, in spite of its origins in the UN and the Linas-Marcoussis accords, confirms, although it is carefully worded, what is at stake economically in the Ivorian crisis.
		In 2003 Ivory Coast produced in fact 38.5 per cent of the GDP and 45 per cent of the monetary mass of the eight countries of the sub-region Economic andMonetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) of the African Financial Community.
		This economic-monetary importance of Ivory Coast is also why this project of "sovereignty" cannot be accepted by the monetary controlling power, which has maintained, in spite of the introduction of the euro, the guarantee of the Franc CFA by the French exchequer.
	www.internationalviewpoint.org /article.php3?id_article=553 (7183 words)

	SABCnews.com - africa/west_africa
		Rebel chiefs and a delegation from the government forces in the Ivory Coast met yesterday in an effort aimed at preparing the country for a formal end to the civil war.
		The continued rebel presence in Ivory Coast's second biggest city of Bouake has been a thorn in Gbagbo's side and he has come under pressure from hardliners to go.
		Civil war erupted in September 2002 but was officially declared over in July last year.
	www.sabcnews.com /africa/west_africa/0,2172,74054,00.html (257 words)

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