This Cannot Last Much Longer
However, the rebels suspended a threat to resume fighting, and gave West African diplomats a chance to pressure President Laurent Gbabo into allowing an interim prime minister, Seydou Diarra, to form a government that would include them. Watching from exile in Paris was former Ivorian Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara, 60, one of those who helped negotiate a peace deal in January. He leads the Rally for Republicans, considered Ivory Coast’s leading political party....