A panel of five African presidents discussed the worsening crisis in Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday, after failing to persuade the country's sitting president Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his rival Alassane Ouattara.
Officials of the 53-member African Union said the talks involved Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Chadian leader Idriss Deby, South Africa's Jacob Zuma, Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaore.
The five-president panel, which was mandated by the AU to tackle the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, is expected to continue talks in the coming days, without the participation of Gbagbo, who has rejected its mediation after similar missions by the president to his country to press for his step-down.
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