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Rockets struck the Fokker-100 airplane carrying Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro as it sat on the tarmac in the northern city of Bouake on June 29, killing three people but failing to harm the former Ivorian rebel leader who now heads the government. As a result of the failed assassination attempt, Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo will likely end efforts to reconcile the divided country -- and he likely will delay elections yet again.
Cote d'Ivoire has been divided between its northern and southern halves since a failed coup attempt in 2002 sparked a civil war. Soro, as leader of the rebel group New Forces, fought Gbagbo's government from the rebel stronghold of Bouake until a March 4 peace deal, brokered by neighboring Burkina Faso, saw Soro become prime minister in exchange for a cease-fire with Gbagbo's government and private security forces.
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