UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Forces loyal to beleaguered Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo have regained ground in Abidjan and fully control the upscale Plateau and Cocody areas, U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said yesterday.
“There is still fighting going on but there is a stalemate,” Le Roy told reporters after briefing the U.N. Security Council on the situation in the world’s top cocoa-growing nation.
Gbagbo has refused to cede power after a U.N.-certified election last year showed he lost to rival Alassane Ouattara. A human rights
