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"My hope is that we don't to the point where there's full-blown civil war," says Chris Fomunyoh, director of Central and West African programs at NDI. "I'm also hoping that as the pro-Outtara forces continue to gain momentum that a lot of the military that has supported Laurent Gbagbo in the past will pause and ask themselves the question whether it's worth fighting for a cause that is a lost cause."

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Four months after the people of Cote d'Ivoire voted to replace him as president, Laurent Gbagbo refuses to leave office and stays entrenched in his presidential palace in the economic capital of Abidjan. NDI's Central and Western Africa director, Christopher Fomunyoh, speaks optimistically about the advancement of the rebels toward the capital.