Ivory Coast will hold elections on Oct. 31, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro said on Thursday, announcing a new date for polls first meant to take place in 2005.
The previous deadline for elections, in November last year, was missed and the electoral (...)
Ivory Coast's President
Laurent Gbagbo was named as his party's candidate for November
elections at a meeting on Saturday that pointed to an escalation
of rhetoric in the runup to the long-delayed post-war vote, Reuters reported.
Despite growing (...)