Voters in Ivory Coast are waiting for the results of Sunday's presidential poll, aimed at reuniting the country after eight years of division. The head of the United Nations mission said turnout was among the highest ever seen in Africa. President Laurent Gbagbo faces two strong challengers. They are former Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara, who is popular in the north and ex-President Henri Konan Bedie, from the party which governed the country for almost 40 years.

Ivory Coast, one of the world's main cocoa producers, used to be West Africa's richest country until political unrest sparked by a coup against Mr Bedie in 1999.

The country has been divided in two since northerners took up arms in 2002.