While the rest of the world's attention has been fixed on the upheavals to the north, the crisis in Cote d'lvoire, France's former colony in west Africa, has been getting rapidly nastier. Since a disputed presidential election in late November, some 400 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes, many of them in the past fortnight. The un, the African Union (au) and the Economic Community of West African States (eco was) have all recognised Alas-sane Ouattara, the former opposition leader, as the winner and new president. But the former incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, is still clinging grimly to power.
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