Côte d’Ivoire: UN envoy holds talks on planned elections

The senior United Nations envoy to Côte d’Ivoire has held talks on elections planned for next year in the country, which has been divided since 2002 between the rebel-held north and Government-controlled south.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative for Côte d’Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, met the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Robert Mambé, at the IEC office in Abidjan.