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Gbagbo’s rivals bid for backing of I.Coast military
by Roland Lloyd Parry, AFP
Thu Dec 9, 4:55 pm ET
ABIDJAN (AFP) – Pressure on Laurent Gbagbo to quit power in Ivory Coast after a disputed presidential poll intensified Thursday with world powers freezing him out and domestic rivals seeking the army’s allegiance.
After the African Union (AU) suspended Ivory Coast from its ranks and the United States warned of sanctions, the rival administration set up by Alassane Ouattara demanded the national military recognise him as head of state.
“The government demands that the Security and Defence Forces carry out their republican mission under President Alassane Ouattara, the supreme chief of the armed forces,” said Ouattara’s government in a statement.
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1 Climate talks end with modest steps but no Kyoto deal
By Alister Doyle and Gerard Wynn, Reuters
1 hr 57 mins ago
| CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – The world’s governments agreed on Saturday to modest steps to combat climate change and give more money to poor countries, but they put off until next year tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The deal includes setting up a Green Climate Fund to give $100 billion a year in aid for poor nations by 2020, measures to protect tropical forests and ways to share clean energy technologies. Ending a marathon session of talks in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun, almost 200 countries also set a target of limiting a rise in average world temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) over pre-industrial times. |
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