Ivory Coast elections to take place between end of February and beginning March

The Ivory Coast elections, which has been postponed on uncountable occasions since 2005, will finally “take place between end of February and beginning March”, top officials of the West African country said during a meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso with the country’s President Blaise Compaoré, mediator for the Guinean political crisis. The first round of votes will “take place between end of February and beginning March 2010”, a communiqué published after a meeting of the Cadre Permanent de Concertation (CPC) and republished by AuFaitMaroc has revealed.