Ivory Coast: Annan warns of possible new war

U.N. peacekeeping troops in Ivory Coast are severely overstretched and militia groups are mobilizing across the country, creating a real danger of a fresh outbreak of war in the world's top cocoa grower, the United Nations said on Wednesday. "There is a very real danger that events may spin out of control with incalculable consequences for the people of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and the subregion as a whole," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to the Security Council.