Paris, France (PANA) – France on Tuesday declared its support for efforts of the African Union (AU) to find a solution to the Ivorian crisis, the spokesperson for the French Foreign Affairs ministry, Bernard Valero, said in Paris. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Amid speculations that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) may have jettisoned its threat to use force to remove incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, the chair of the regional bloc has said the use of force remains an option. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan government will support dialogue and negotiations as a way to ending the current political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, the Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, said Thursday while exchanging views with diplomats here.Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos has urged that the outgoing President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, be allowed to remain in office until a new election is held as stipulated by the electoral laws of the country. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The head of the Department of Human Rights at the UN operations in Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI), Simon Munzu, on Thursday said the Mission had noted acts that could lead to genocide in the West African country. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire – The UN operations in Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI) on Thursday expressed fears that the hostility of supporters of incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo to the organisation could be transformed into physical attacks. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire – The UN operations in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) on Wednesday expressed concern about the ambush of its peacekeepers by the Ivorian soldiers on Tuesday evening in the district of Abobo in Abidjan. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – Bloody clashes on Tuesday in Abobo, a district of Abidjan, between the supporters of Alassane Ouattara, the man widely believed to have won the controversial Ivorian presidential vote, and the security forces have left five people dead.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghana said on Monday that it was sidelined at a recent of military chiefs of the Economic Community of West Africah States to plan a possible military action to force Ivorian incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo out of office. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Foreign policy analysts in Nigeria have described as unfortunate the statement credited to Ghana's President John Atta Mills, that his country will not contribute troops in the event of an ECOWAS military action to force out incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghana's opposition to the possible use of force to remove incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo if he fails to step down, as threatened by ECOWAS leaders, is more far reaching than publicly stated, PANA learnt on Monday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has expressed fears that the political instability in Ivory Coast might cause a humanitarian crisis because of the movement of people inside the country and to neighbouring countries.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Friday said it would not contribute troops for a possible military push against incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, even though it supported the stand by the regional bloc ECOWAS to force Gbagbo out if he fails to step down peacefully. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian Civil Society groups Thursday proposed a rerun of the presidential election to end the political crisis hitting the country since the 28 November run-off produced Alassane Ouattara as winner with the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refusing to cede power. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese head of State, Denis Sassou Nguesso, on Thursday called on the Ivorian political class and the international community to find a solution to the lingering crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, where Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are in a fight for the presidency following the 28 November presidential run-off. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga insists Ivorian strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, has no option but to negotiate an exit to pave the way for the legitimate president of the country, Alassane Ouattara, to take over. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, on Tuesday briefed Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi on the mission Monday to Cote d'Ivoire by three west African leaders, an official source told PANA here Wednesday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - A deployment of international troops, helicopters and navy warships may soon be on ground in Cote d'Ivoire following a meeting of the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, the Belgian capital, Monday.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to negotiate a peaceful end to the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, without pre-conditions, the ECOWAS delegation that met with him on Monday said. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Guinean writer and author of Le Roi de Kahel novel, Tierno Monenembo, has strongly criticized the action of UN in Cote d'Ivoire, which he likened to a recolonization of Africa. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The current chairman of the African Union (AU), Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, has expressed concern at the slow pace of the mediation process to end the political stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) insisted Tuesday it will use force to remove incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo if he fails to quit peacefully. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three West African Presidents Monday failed, again, to persuade incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to step down in favour of the internationally-recognised winner of the 28 Nov. presidential runoff in the West African nation, Alassane Ouattara, a source close to the ECOWAS delegation told PANA Monday night. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reaffirmed the UN ``principled and unwavering" stand that the outcome of the recent presidential run-off election in Cote d'Ivoire reflected the will of the people and the result must therefore be upheld.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three West African Presidents were due in Abidjan Monday to continue their efforts to resolve the electoral impasse in Cote d'Ivoire, following the 28 Nov. 2010 presidential rerun in the cocoa-rich nation. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Ivorian reggae star, Tiken Jah Fakoly, has called on the incumbent Ivorian president, Laurent Gbabgo, to choose an honourable exit in an effort to secure peace in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The decision by ECOWAS leaders to use force to kick out incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo if he fails to quit, in the aftermath of the dispute over the country's presidential runoff, is legal, contrary to the criticisms in certain quarters. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – Alassne Ouattara, the man recognised by the international community as winner of the disputed presidential election in Cote d'Ivoire, has promised to put behind the country's recent past marked by disorder, rifts and sufferings, and move into the New Year with love, fraternity and solidarity. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – Three West African leaders on Tuesday held talks with the special representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Côte d’Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, as diplomatic efforts continue to amicably resolve the political crisis threatening to tear up the country.Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The Ivorian human rights organisation, Civil Society Convention (CSCI), on Tuesday denounced violations of freedom of movement of members of the Rally of Pro-Houphouët for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), who have been living at Hôtel du Golf since the outbreak of the post-election crisis that is threatening to tear the country apart. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Mali's president Amadou Toumani Touré has denied allegations in an Ivorian newspaper that he gave under pressure Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo the "push" that enabled him to pay the salaries of civil servants and other government workers.Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - ECOWAS envoys -- Presidents Boni Yayi of Benin, Ernest Koroma of Sierra Leone and Pedro Pires of Cape Verde -- mandated by the regional body to begin moves to ease Laurent Gbagbo out of office in Cote d'Ivoire, Tuesday landed in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, PANA reported here.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been picked by the African Union (AU) to lead three other African leaders, tasked with mediating the Ivorian post-poll stand off. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) is to release an emergency humanitarian aid of five million euro for those threatened by the post-election crisis Côte d'Ivoire, official sources said in Brussels on Friday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana government says it has contingency plans to evacuate its nationals from Cot d'Ivoire, its troubled western neighbour, that has been thrown into turmoil following a controversial election claimed by two candidates. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire, caused by the refusal of President Laurent Gbagbo to hand over power to Alassane Ouattara, acclaimed winner of the second round of the presidential election on 28 November, is still dominating Congolese papers this week. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Guillaume Soro, the Prime Minister appointed by Alassane Ouattara following his victory in Cote d'Ivoire's 28 Nov. presidential runoff, has asked outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo to step down. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghana's former President Jerry John Rawlings on Monday called for“restraint and maturity” from political Ivorian leaders and an end to the creeping violence that threatens the peace and stability of the country. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - France has called for the respect of the outcome of the presidential election and for a peaceful transition in Cote d'Ivoire, a spokesman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Valero, said here Monday. Full text...

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The newly-elected president of Guinea, Professor Alpha Conde, has asked the eight regional governors in the country to allow Ivorians fleeing post-election crisis in their country free entry into Guinea. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The supporters of Alassane Ouattara, one of the two proclaimed presidents in Côte d’Ivoire have approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) to demand the use of the mandate of the UN forces to the situation prevailing in the country, a statement from the Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) disclosed. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday asked incumbent Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish power before the end of this week warning that sanctions would be applied if he failed to comply. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – Ivorian incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo on Friday received the chairman of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, who has arrived in the troubled West African country to assess the political situation triggered by the controversial 28 November presidential run-off election. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday warned outgoing Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo against using violence to resolve the political stalemate in the country. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Following Thursday's deadly clashes in Abidjan between forces loyal to both Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, economic activities in the Ivorian capital have gone virtually "dead", PANA reported here Friday.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A delegation including African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping and ECOWAS Commission President Victor Gbeho was due in Abidjan Friday to continue efforts to resolve the leadership stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire, ECOWAS sources told PANA. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - A communique issued by the Rally of the Houphouétistes for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), a coalition of the opposition parties in Cote d'Ivoire, has reported 12 dead following clashes between forces local to both Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo.Full text...