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Call for Nationwide Strike in Ivory Coast Gathers Little Traction

   Anne Look | Abidjan  18 January 2011
   Alassane  Ouattara  answers  questions from journalists during a press
   conference  at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (File Photo - 06
   Jan 2011)

Photo: AP

   Alassane  Ouattara  answers  questions from journalists during a press
   conference  at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (File Photo - 06
   Jan 2011)

   In  Ivory  Coast,  a  call  for  a nationwide strike against incumbent
   president,   Laurent   Gbagbo,   has   failed   to   spark  widespread
   participation,   as   the   regional   mediator   to   the   country's