UN's Ban: Ivory Coast's Gbagbo Must Go -- Voice of America
As clashes continue in Ivory Coast, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has again demanded that embattled incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo cease efforts to cling to power. Ban met with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday on Capitol Hill.
The U.N. secretary-general minced no words in his message to Laurent Gbagbo, who the U.N. and most nations say lost the Ivory Coast presidential election to Alassane Ouattara.
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