Fighters 'will wait for Gbagbo'

Ivory Coast’s democratically elected leader says his forces will not capture the entrenched incumbent who has been holed up for days in an underground bunker at the presidential residence, and instead will wait for him to run out of food and water.

In his first television appearance since the siege of Abidjan began, Alassane Ouattara said that his forces are setting up a security perimeter around the compound where Laurent Gbagbo is sheltering with his family.