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  • Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and his main rival, Henri Konan Bedie, reported progress Wednesday in their first talks on an election crisis that has claimed scores of lives. "It was a first meeting to break the ice and restore trust," Ouattara said, while Bedie stated "we have been able to break through the wall of ice and the wall of silence." The two men, whose talks were held at an upmarket hotel in Abidjan, said in brief comments to the press that further meetings would take place. "We are going to continue to call each other in the coming days and weeks and meet so that the country returns to what it was," Bedie said. Ouattara added, "Peace is the dearest thing to both of us and to all Ivorians, and we have decided to strive for it." Their talks are the first since presidential elections on October 31 resulted in a bitter standoff, fuelling fears that francophone West Africa's biggest economy could plunge once more into civil conflict. Ouattara was declared victor with more than 94 percent of the vote. The election was snubbed by the opposition, which says the incumbent breached the country's two-term presidential limits. Ouattara sparked clashes in August when he announced his bid for a third spell in office, arguing that a 2016 revision of the constitution meant that the presidential term counter had been reset to zero. Communications Minister Sidi Tiemoko Toure on Wednesday said the toll now stood at 85 dead and 484 injured, many of them in the southeast of the country. Bedie, an 86-year-old former president, has a long and complex political relationship with Ouattara, 78. They were allies in the country's 2010-11 crisis, in which Ouattara forced out the then president, Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to step down after being defeated at the ballot box. But the pair then fell out in August 2018. pgf-de/sba/ri/mbx
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  • Rivals in I.Coast crisis talks say they have 'broken the ice'
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