'Force' urged in Ivory Coast power row
A leading ally of the man widely recognised as Ivory Coast’s new president said today that incumbent Laurent Gbagbo is using stalling tactics to stay in power and urged the international community to intervene with “legitimate force” to remove him.
Meanwhile, Gbagbo supporters who were called on to remove Alassane Ouattara from the Golf Hotel on New Year’s morning failed to materialise as United Nations Bangladeshi riot police guarded the hotel’s entrance in full crowd-control gear.
