{"id":363136,"date":"2011-04-03T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T11:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/03\/cote-divoire-u-s-says-gbagbo-must-go-now\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T11:05:27","slug":"cote-divoire-u-s-says-gbagbo-must-go-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/cote-divoire-u-s-says-gbagbo-must-go-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: U.S. Says Gbagbo Must Go Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"22.721206129511\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 3 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The United States has called on C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire stongman Laurent Gbagbo to step down immediately claiming he is pushing the West African nation into lawlessness.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the path forward for Gbagbo is clear and he must leave now so the conflict may end.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Gbagbo has been brushing off calls by world leaders to step down amid an offensive by troops backing the internationally recognised presidnt Alassane Ouattara in the main city of Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the streets of Abidjan were deserted on Sunday while fighting abated near Gbagbo&#8217;s bastions after a four-day assault by rival forces. 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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the path forward for Gbagbo is clear and he must leave now so the conflict may end. So far, Gbagbo has been brushing off calls by world leaders to step down amid an offensive by troops backing the internationally recognised presidnt Alassane Ouattara in the main city of Abidjan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cote d&#039;Ivoire: U.S. Says Gbagbo Must Go Now - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/cote-divoire-u-s-says-gbagbo-must-go-now\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cote d&#039;Ivoire: U.S. Says Gbagbo Must Go Now - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"3 April 2011 The United States has called on C\u00f4te d&#039;Ivoire stongman Laurent Gbagbo to step down immediately claiming he is pushing the West African nation into lawlessness. 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