The head of Ivory Coast's Constitutional Court, Paul Yao Ndre, has reversed his earlier decision, and decided to endorse the campaign victory of Ivory Coast President-elect, Alassane Ouattara. NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton says Ndre's decision to back his ally, President Laurent Gbagbo, helped seal his country's bloody fate last December.
Ivory Coast fell into savage war, with militias battling for control, and hundreds of civilians tortured, raped and murdered. Ironically, the presidential election was intended to get Ivory Coast past the remains of its earlier civil war.
Now the AP reports UN investigators are going to a soccer field in the commercial capital, Abidjan to check reports that bodies are interred there in a mass grave.
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