Ivory Coast: Ivorians rejoin UN-backed peace process

Côte d’Ivoire’s ruling party is resuming its participation in the west African country’s United Nations (UN)-backed peace process, reversing an earlier decision to pull out, its president said yesterday. The Ivorian Popular Front party (FPI) had said last week it was abandoning a UN peace plan in protest against a recommendation by foreign mediators that the country’s national assembly be dissolved.