World Leaders: Ivory Coast: Old prez is out, noo prez is in, say Big Three

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. President Barack Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy threw their diplomatic weight Friday behind Alassane Ouattara as winner of Ivory Coast's bitterly disputed presidential election.



The trio told the West African nation's longtime leader Laurent Gbagbo he should admit defeat and withdraw without causing fresh unrest in a country recovering from a decade of civil war and political conflict.

-- Politicarp