Washington and the Ivory Coast conflict
Ivory Coast conflict (BBC video)
Laurent Gbagbo remains holed up in the presidential palace in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjian. Gbagbo lost the November election to Alassane Ouattara but refuses to go. Marco Werman talks with William Fitzgerald, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs at the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs.
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