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Mbeki In Ivory Coast to Mediate Presidential Standoff

   VOA News 05 December 2010
   Jordanian  United  Nations soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the
   Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 05 Dec 2010

Photo: AP

   Jordanian  United  Nations soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the
   Golf  Hotel  in Abidjan, where opposition leader Alasssane Ouattara is
   staying, Ivory Coast, 05 Dec 2010

   Former  South  African President Thabo Mbeki is in Ivory Coast to help
   mediate the country's deepening political crisis.

   Mbeki arrived in Abidjan Sunday, a day after both candidates from last
   week's  presidential  election  announced  they  had taken the oath of
   office.
   President   Laurent   Gbagbo   was   sworn   in  after  Ivory  Coast's
   Constitutional  Council declared him the winner with 51 percent of the