This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

1. Guy-Andre Kieffer is a Franco-Canadian dual national journalist, who vanished in Cote d'Ivoire in April 2004. More than three years after the journalist got missing; his name becomes subject of front-page stories in today's Ivoirian newspapers.

2. With a picture of the French President on its front-page, 24 Heures, a daily close to the opposition, carries a headline entitled: "Sarkozy opens the Pandora box." Nicholas Sarkozy, reports the paper, vowed "to help resolve the mystery over the whereabouts of Guy-Andre Kieffer," when he received yesterday at Elysee the family of the missing journalist. "It's a priority for the French government," the paper quotes Sarkozy as saying.

3. "Assassination of Guy-Andre Kieffer: An eyewitness narrates the tale of execution of the journalist," says another banner headline carried by Nord-Sud Quotidien, a paper close to the opposition. The paper quotes one Berte Seydou, who spoke to France 3 - a French TV network - as saying, "Kieffer was killed." According to the paper, "Sarkozy would demand Ivoirian President Laurent Gbagbo to account for what happened to the journalist."

4. "Vanishing of Guy-Andre Kieffer: An eyewitness accuses the Presidency," writes Le Nouveau Reveil, a daily close to the ex-ruling PDCI-RDA party. "Kieffer spent two nights in the basement of the Ivoirian Presidency," the paper quotes the witness as saying.

5. The paper believes that "the time for justice to unveil the mystery of the French-Canadian journalist has finally come." It also alleges that the Ivoirian authorities refused "to cooperate in the criminal investigation set up to shed light on the matter" because "the main suspects belong to the inner circle of President Gbagbo and his wife."

6. Still on the new development on Kieffer's affair, L'intelligent d'Abidjan, a privately-owned daily, says "Sarkozy has stepped pressure on the French Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire." Receiving the family of Guy-Andre Kieffer, reports the paper, Sarkozy said: "I'll ask Andre Janier to take the matter seriously."

7. Le Courrier d'Abidjan, a daily close to Gbagbo, describes the decision by the French authorities to investigate the case of the French-Canadian journalist as "another war of Paris against Abidjan." The paper questions the motive behind the publication of a statement made by Berte Seydou. It believes that the meeting yesterday between the family of the journalist and Sarkozy, and promise made by the French leader to help resolve the matter are not "fortuitous" events.

8. The paper opines that, "After the military and diplomatic blow suffered by Chirac - French ex-president --, as he failed to remove Gbagbo from power, his successor, Sarkozy, wants to use the case of our Guy-Andre Kieffer to finish the job."

9. While the privately-owned daily Soir Info sees Berte Seydou's declaration as, "startling revelations," Notre Voie, a daily close to the ruling FPI party, calls it "a dream."

10. Le Front, a daily close to the New Forces, devotes its front-page to a different matter. According to the paper, "A UN mission is expected in Abidjan around mid-September, as part of probe into the rocket attack against the plane carrying Prime Minister Soro Guillaume on June 29." The paper however indicates that the UN mission won't have any mandate to carry out any international investigation into the matter.

11. A front-page story in the state-owned daily, Fraternite Matin, says the RDR opposition party, led by Alassane Dramane Ouattara, is to hold two rallies - one in Abidjan and the other one in Paris - to launch its campaign ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections.

12. Le Patriote, a daily close to the party calls Paris gathering, "The grand conclave." The paper cites "the party's strategy to take power, identification scheme, upcoming elections, and plan to reorganize the party," as issues that will atop of Paris' rally.

13. According to the privately-owned daily, "There is an in-fight within the ruling FPI party for the succession of President Gbagbo." The battle, writes the paper, opposes party's heavyweights, including the First Lady, Simone Gbagbo, Mamadou Koulibaly, who the paper presented as "the constitutional dauphin", Affi N'Guessan, the president of the president of the party, and Bohoun Bouabre, Minister of State in-charge of Planning and Development in the current government.