Mounting Violence Before Historic Ivory Coast Vote -- Washington PostABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- As Ivory Coast prepares to complete its first presidential poll in a decade, the two candidates in Sunday's runoff called for an end to the violence that has marked recent campaigning.
Multiple clashes between the candidates' supporters in the last week have caused at least two deaths in a key battleground in the center of the country, stoking ethnic tensions right before a vote that could bring a peaceful closure to the world's largest cocoa producer's enduring crisis, or plunge it back into ethnic violence.
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More News On The Presidential Election In The Ivory Coast
Mood sours as Ivory Coast braces for poll runoff -- Reuters
Ivory Coast Presidential Election Threatens to Inflame Political Tensions -- Bloomberg
Ivory Coast Election Campaign Turns ’Ugly,’ Media Group Says -- Bloomberg
Last day of campaigning for Ivory Coast rivals -- AFP
Scuffles, calls for calm ahead of I.Coast vote -- AFP
Ivory Coast deploys troops ahead of presidential poll -- BBC
Curfew to Follow Sunday Vote in Ivory Coast -- Voice of America
COTE D'IVOIRE: Ivoirians seek end to turbulent times -- IRIN
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