Rebel chief becomes premier
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Ivory Coast’s president signed a decree naming a rebel leader as the new prime minister as part of a power-sharing peace plan, a government spokesman said.
With the signature of President Laurent Gbagbo, rebel chief Guillaume Soro officially stepped into his new role under the plan to unite a country split between the rebel-held north and the government-controlled south.
About 9,000 United Nations troops and 3,500 French soldiers are deployed in Ivory Coast to prevent the nation from sliding back into civil war.
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