Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo waits to meet Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga (not pictured) to discuss the post-electoral situation at the presidential palace in Abidjan, on Jan. 17. Thierry Gouegnon/ReutersAs Ivory Coast Stalemate Worsens, So Do The Chances Of Military Intervention -- Christian Science Monitor
Although the West African regional body, ECOWAS, has threatened to use force to remove incumbent President Laurent Gbabgo, nobody wants to ignite a second civil war in Ivory Coast.
At least 247 people have died since Ivory Coast's Nov. 28 election, which was supposed to end a 12 year conflict in the world's top cocoa producer. At least 49 people have disappeared, and those whisked away to secret prisons may number in the hundreds.
Those are the latest numbers from a United Nations mission that has been firebombed, shot at, and increasingly understood as an occupying army by defenders of Laurent Gbagbo, the renegade president who has escalated his refusal to concede electoral defeat into a once-in-a-generation-battle for the sovereignty of this former French colony.
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More News On The Unrest In The Ivory Coast
Peacekeeping Officials: ECOWAS Invasion of Ivory Coast Unlikely -- Voice of America
AU Envoy Continues Bid to Resolve Ivory Coast Crisis -- Voice of America
Mediators say talks deadlocked on Ivory Coast -- Reuters
Ivory Coast's Gbagbo agrees to talks -- AFP
Shooting kills 1 in Ivory Coast; West African leaders meet to consider military intervention -- Canadian Press
Call for Nationwide Strike in Ivory Coast Gathers Little Traction -- Voice of America
Russia delays UN vote on more I.Coast troops: envoys -- Reuters
UN to send '2000 troops' to Ivory Coast -- Sydney Morning Herald/AFP
UN Peacekeepers Will Not Be ‘Intimidated’ by Ivorian Protests -- Voice of America
Cut Off, Ivory Coast Chief Is Pressing for Cash -- New York Times
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