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Thursday 01 September 2011
Experience of a UN envoy in Côte d'Ivoire
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A street vendor sells souvenirs during the 51st Ivorian independence day ceremony in Abidjan
Reuters/Luc Gnago
By Michel Arseneault

In South Korea, YJ Choi is best known as a former junior foreign minister. But in West Africa, he has a different profile as the head of the UN mission in Côte d'Ivoire. He's the man who oversaw the contentious - and violent - presidential transition. Now Choi's four-year Ivorian mandate is coming to an end and he is leaving Abidjan today.

tags : Abidjan - Côte d'Ivoire - politics - South Korea - United Nations
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