West African Leaders to Meet in Senegal on Cote d'Ivoire's Crisis

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West African Leaders to Meet in Senegal on Cote d'Ivoire's Crisis

West African leaders will meet in Senegalese capital of Dakar on Wednesday to try to find a solution to the worsening situation in Cote d'Ivoire, according to reports reaching Lagos from Accra.

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West African leaders will meet in Senegalese capital of Dakar on Wednesday to try to find a solution to the worsening situation in Cote d'Ivoire, according to reports reaching Lagos from Accra.

Ghanaian government spokesman Kwabena Agyepong was quoted as telling reporters on Tuesday that the venue of the summit sponsored by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)was moved from Ghana to Senegal.

The new arrangement was worked out during talks on Monday nightamong five ECOWAS leaders in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, the spokesmansaid.

The leaders of Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Liberia and Senegal met inthe northern Togolese city of Kara and then flew to Abidjan to meet Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo.

Also present at the Kara talks were officials of the governmentand the main rebel group, the Patriotic Movement of Cote d'Ivoire (MPCI).

Peace talks under the auspices of ECOWAS in Togo have been deadlocked with the MPCI demanding Gbagbo's stepdown and the government demanding rebels' surrender.

The Sept. 19 uprising has turned into a full-scale coup attemptto oust President Gbagbo with MPCI rebels seizing more than half of the country in the north.

The situation has been worsening when more fighters rose up against the government since the uprising, which claimed hundreds of lives and left tens of thousands of people homeless.

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