Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo starts election campaign

6 x postponed elections start

Campaigning has begun in Ivory Coast for presidential elections which have been postponed six times.

President Laurent Gbagbo, whose five-year mandate was supposed to have come to an end five years ago, has enjoyed most of the media attention on the state-run RTI station. Some 8,000 UN peacekeepers have remained in Ivory Coast to oversee the election process.