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Page 6B
WORLD
Thursday, October
THE BATTALION
Ivory Coast presidential election ends in street riol
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Opposition leader Laurent
Gbagbo claimed the presidency of the Ivory Coast on
Wednesday after a tumultuous 24 hours that ended the rule
of the military junta that seized power 10 months ago.
Soldiers and civilians took to the streets to cele
brate, although the festivities were short-lived as sup
porters of one of Ivory Coast’s largest political par
ties launched a new round of street protests to demand
a new vote.
Junta leader Gen. Robert Guei, who had declared him
self the winner of Sunday’s presidential election, was
forced from power earlier in the day when his security
forces turned against him and joined thousands of un
armed demonstrators who took to the streets to back
Gbagbo’s bid for power.
Later, Gbagbo was introduced on state television as
.“president.” He said he would be forming a Cabinet
shortly.
The longtime left-leaning politician and former uni
versity professor had urged his followers to undertake a
We are taking control as I
speak”
— Henry Cesar Sama
former Guei information minister
popular uprising after Guei disbanded the country’s elec
toral commission on Tuesday and declared himself the
election winner.
More than 50 people were killed in clashes involving
civilians and military since Tuesday, said Nguessan Afi,
an official in Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front party. The
toll could not be independently confirmed.
At least three bodies were seen in downtown Abidjan,
and five other people were seriously injured. Four sol
diers died in fighting early Wednesday, soldiers said.
Guei’s whereabouts were unclear. A former aide, De-
sire-Paulin Dakoury, said he remained in the presidential
offices in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s main city, and “will be
the one to decide when he talks and when he leaves.”
However, former Guei information minister Henri Ce
sar Sama, who is now allied with Gbagbo, said Guei had
fled Abidjan for Cotonou, a city in nearby Benin.
Airport officials in Cotonou also said Guei and his
family were there. Well into the evening, senior govern
ment officials and their bodyguards hovered around the
airport terminal.
“We are taking control as I speak,” Sama said Wednes
day. He said pro-Gbagbo soldiers were trying to convince
the remaining junta forces to put down their arms. In a
state TV broadcast Wednesday evening, army chief of
staff Soumailia Diabakate pledged the fealty of the “en
tire armed forces” to Gbagbo.
Gbagbo praised his supporters for opposing what he
called Guei’s “electoral coup d’etat.”
“You went out in the hundreds of thousands,” he said
on state television. “I pay particular homage to those who
died in the cause of this.”
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A
Russian Defense Ministry plane
slammed into a mountain while try
ing to land in bad weather Wednes
day evening in Georgia. Officials
said all 75 people on board were
feared dead.
A search and rescue team sent to
the crash site about 15 miles east of
the city of Batumi found pieces of the
plane and scorched earth. Georgia’s
Emergency Situations Department
said. Russia’s RTR television report
ed that bodies had been found and
showed footage of flaming pieces of
wreckage lit by rescue workers’
floodlights.
The cause of the crash was not
immediately known.
The plane veered off course on
approach in “difficult weather con
ditions,” said Alexander Silagadze,
head of the civil aviation agency
Sakaeronavigatsiya.
Russian military officials said
the plane, an II -18 transport with 64
passengers and a crew of 11, was at
an altitude of 5,300 feet near Mount
Tirava when communications with
it were lost, the Interfax news
agency reported. Both military and
civilian personnel were aboard, In
terfax said.
Mount Tirava means “Weeping
Mountain” in Georgian, RTR said.
Interfax said passengers aboard
the plane included servicemen and
their wives and children returning
from vacation. Although Russia and
Georgia became independent coun
tries when the Soviet Union broke up
in 1991, Russian still maintains
troops in Georgia.
A spokesman for the Georgian
emergency department said on con
dition of anonymity that it was un
likely anyone survived.
The plane was flying from the
Chkalovsky military airfield outside
of Moscow to Batumi, home to a
Russian military base. It was a mail
plane that made twice-monthly
flights along the route, military offi
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Crowds of supporters exploded in celebration it
jan and the western city of Gagnoa, a Gbagbo si
at the news that Gbagbo had taken power. Some
drums while others sang and danced in the streel
“With Gbagbo, we have hope for the future,]
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was among those celebrating.
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protest: More than 1,000 supporters of opposition
Alassane Dramane Ouattara, who had been barred]
taking part in the election, rallied in front of the staiij
vision offices.
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