Rival: Cote d'Ivoire leader must step down
By Rukmini Callimachi | China Daily | Updated: 2011-01-05 08:28
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United Nations soldiers stand guard outside the entrance to the Golf Hotel, where opposition leader Alassane Ouattara was meeting with African leaders, in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on Monday. African leaders have offered Laurent Gbagbo an amnesty deal to cede power. Emanuel Ekra / Associated Press |
ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - For the second time, Cote d'Ivoire's renegade leader rebuffed an appeal from a high-level regional delegation to cede power to the internationally recognized winner of presidential elections, who said the time has come for military intervention.
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