William Fitzgerald

Washington and the Ivory Coast conflict

Conflict & Justice

Laurent Gbagbo remains holed up in the presidential palace in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjian. 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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