New Rivalries Arise in Ivory Coast

Ivorian forces are conducting security sweeps April 21 in the Ivorian commercial capital, Abidjan, to disarm militias that could threaten President Alassane Ouattara's administration. Ouattara's Prime Minister and Defense Minister Guillaume Soro is using the situation to consolidate his own power base. Now that former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is no longer in power, tensions are emerging among the groups that helped Ouattara come into power — and between those factions and Ouattara.