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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on all parties in Côte d'Ivoire to fix a new date as soon as possible for their much-delayed elections, now postponed yet again from their latest deadline of this month.
This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
There's only one slot left to be filled in Africa's line-up at the 2010 Fifa World Cup, to be played in South Africa next June, and it will be taken after what has the makings of an epic playoff between Algeria and Egypt in Sudan on Wednesday.
Health officials have confirmed three cases of yellow fever in Côte d'Ivoire's northwest Denguélé region.
For the first time in the history of African World Cup qualifying series, most of the matches had to go the wire with Nigerian and Cameroon having to wait till the last day to decide their fate. They both joined Ghana and Cote'd Ivoire who sealed their passage to Madiba's country months ago.
Like him or hate him, Didier Drogba is currently the best value for money player in the world. And I am not writing this as a Chelsea fan or an African. That his playing style dictates he may never win the annual Fifa World Player of the Year award is irrelevant. No player - neither Cristiano Ronaldo, nor Lionel Messi, nor Frank Ribery, nor Ricardo Kaka is as good a shift as Drogba .
Guinea need at least a point from their final 2010 World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations Group E qualifier against Cote d'Ivoire in Abidjan today to have any chance of winning a place in Angola next year.
Côte d'Ivoire's independent electoral commission has handed over a provisional voters' list to the top United Nations envoy in the country, a step forward towards holding the much-delayed presidential poll in the West African country, split by civil war in 2002 into a Government-ruled south and a rebel-controlled north.
Côte d'Ivoire's independent electoral commission today handed over a provisional voters' list to the top United Nations envoy there, a step forward towards holding the much-delayed presidential poll in the West African country, split by civil war in 2002 into a Government-ruled south and a rebel-controlled north.
The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) today began transporting the provisional voters' list to polling stations around the country as part of the latest phase of preparations for the upcoming presidential elections.
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