warm response, waiting to see whether there would be a referendum or not. "This war is going to end and is the process of ending by the constitutional path," Gbagbo told the group of youths. Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower and a country once seen as a model of African prosperity and stability, has been divided since rebels seized the north after a failed coup attempt in September 2002. Although civil war was declared over last year, the former French colony remains split and serious violence has flared repeatedly with an upsurge last month prompting thousands of Westerners to leave.
