Ivory Coast: 'The relief is widespread'

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11 April 2011 Last updated at 14:14 ET


Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo has been detained in Abidjan and placed under UN police guard.

Forces loyal to his UN-recognised successor, Alassane Ouattara, and French tanks advanced on his residence where he had been ensconced in a bunker.

Mr Gbagbo had been refusing to cede power, insisting he won November's presidential election.

There are conflicting accounts of how he finally surrendered.


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