Ivory Coast has extended until Feb. 14 a deadline for finalising voter lists, the prime minister and election commission said, making it all but impossible to hold an election in March as previously planned.
Voter eligibility is the latest issue to delay polls aimed at ending instability and political limbo in the world's No. 1 cocoa grower, which was divided by a 2002-2003 civil war.
No target date for the election was given. The vote was first set for 2005, but has slipped repeatedly, and most recently was informally set for sometime in March.
The latest delay follows a row between the election commission and President Laurent Gbagbo over hundreds of thousands of extra names that were incorrectly put on a draft version of the election list.
source: Reuters
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