November 18, 2004

 UN efforts to talk the government out of invading the rebel held north have partially succeeded. The government has stopped the pro-war campaign in the government controlled electronic media. The pro-war radio broadcasts were a major problem in keeping the peace, and this hate filled programming has stopped, for the moment. Many of the broadcasts were directed against France, but some 6,000 French troops in Ivory Coast persuaded the government to change their programming.