Abidjan, IVORY COAST: Supporters of the opposition Rally of Houphouetistes for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) hold up a placard reading 'Gbagbo, this time you will leave' during a gathering in Abidjan 15 October 2006. The United Nations has decided to give troubled Ivory Coast another 12 months in which to find a way out of its current impasse and organise general elections, the top UN representative in the west African country, Gerard Stoudman, said the previous day. The new measure would mark a 'clear continuity' with existing resolution 1633, Stoudman said, which already extended the mandate of President Laurent Gbagbo by a year and scheduled presidential elections no later than the end of this month. Getty Images logo Getty Images 40 months ago

Abidjan, IVORY COAST: Supporters of the opposition Rally of Houphouetistes for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) hold up a placard reading 'Gbagbo, this time you will leave' during a gathering in Abidjan 15 October 2006. The United Nations has decided to give troubled Ivory Coast another 12 months in which to find a way out of its current impasse and organise general elections, the top UN representative in the west African country, Gerard Stoudman, said the previous day. The new measure would mark a 'clear continuity' with existing resolution 1633, Stoudman said, which already extended the mandate of President Laurent Gbagbo by a year and scheduled presidential elections no later than the end of this month.

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