A Press conference to announce the re-sults of a tight presidential run-off in Cote d'lvoire said it all. Just as the election commission's spokesman tried to read out the first batch, commissioners loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo accused him of hijacking the election and actually scrum-pled up the results sheet. As The Economist went to press, no results had been officially declared. But it seemed that Mr Gbagbo, who came to power in 2000 and has run the southern half of the country unelected since 2005, was losing his grip.
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