This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Reports in today's Ivorian press said that the presidential and New Forces delegations meeting in Ouagadougou failed to sign a complementary agreement yesterday as the two sides are divided over the issue of rank/grades of former rebel leaders. Dailies also said that the RHDP - an alliance of major political groups - have proposed April 2009 as the date for the long-delayed presidential elections. Cote d'Ivoire's 2009 budget; the 35th ECOWAS Summit in Abuja, Nigeria and the release of Asse Alafe, a journalist and publisher of L'intelligent d'Abidjan, were the other major stories in today's newspapers.
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