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Gbagbo on his way out? Ivory Coast violence dying down? Not so fast

Renegade President Laurent Gbagbo is surrounded in his presidential bunker, but it would be a mistake, analysts say, to assume the end of his rule means the end of violence in Ivory Coast.By Drew Hinshaw, Correspondent / April 6, 2011

Dakar, Senegal

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo – who sparked his country's second civil war in a decade when he refused to step down after losing the Nov. 28 elections – is expected to be yanked from his presidential bunker within a matter minutes, hours, or days.

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