Ivory Coast: Gbagbo throws opponents out of government

President Laurent Gbagbo said on Tuesday that he wanted some ministers to leave Cote d'Ivoire's broad-based national reconciliation government and was suspending the salaries of 26 opposition and rebel ministers who have boycotted the cabinet since the security forces killed at least 120 people in Abidjan at the end of March. Gbagbo said in a surprise television broadcast that he had sent Prime Minister Seydou Diarra a list of the ministers who he wanted to remove from government, but he did not reveal their names.