Rebels Tighten Grip, but Peace Envoy Hopeful
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Ivory Coast’s rebels tightened their hold on the key cocoa industry town of Daloa as a West African envoy held out the hope of talks.
Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by a war that has blown up from a failed Sept. 19 coup.
Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said in the Ivorian city of Bouake that he had reached a verbal understanding with both sides on a peace plan.
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