The United Nations is upping the pressure on Ivory Coast to hold a long-promised election. The country’s current political crisis began with an attempted coup against President Laurent Gbagbo in September 2002, which left the country with a nasty split between the rebel-held north and a government-controlled south. The election has already been delayed six times since 2005, and there is not a whole lot of reason to think the country will hold elections by the UN’s preferred May deadline.
