Three days of mourning are declared in Ivory Coast following a New Year's Eve stampede that killed at least 61 people in Abidjan.

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At least 60 people are killed and about 200 injured in a crush during New Year festivities in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, local media say.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints the former president of East Timor, Nobel Peace prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta, as his special representative to Guinea-Bissau.

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