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25 May 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Reuters
 
 
 

Ivory Coast will hold elections on October 31, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro said on Thursday, the first date to emerge since a November deadline was missed and the electoral process collapsed in political wrangling.

 

The polls are badly needed to end years of crisis and economic stagnation following a 2002-3 war that divided the world's top cocoa grower in two. They were first meant to happen in 2005.

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