Cote d'Ivoire: Polls 'by December'

Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations has said his country's much-postponed presidential election will take place by the end of this year. Ilahiri Djedje told the UN Security Council the vote, due since President Laurent Gbagbo's mandate ran out in 2005, would be held by 6 December. Efforts have been continuing to reunify the country after a civil war that left half of it in rebel hands.