BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast since 2002 officially handed over to civilian administrators on Tuesday in a step aimed at restoring government authority across the world's biggest cocoa producer.
The West African country was divided by a brief civil war in 2002-03 and is due to hold a long-delayed presidential election on Nov. 29, though many Ivorians suspect the vote could be postponed again as all sides have profited from the status quo.
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