No elections in Ivory Coast

IVORY COAST: Ivory Coast's President has dissolved the Government and disbanded the election commission, throwing into doubt the political reconciliation process just before the divided country was about to hold elections.

"The Government is dissolved," President Laurent Gbagbo announced on national television, specifying that Prime Minister Guillaume Soro would be asked to form a new government.

Gbagbo's legal term expired five years ago.

A date for the election has been set - and then cancelled - every year since 2005.