Ivory Coast's rebels said today international mediation efforts in the West African country were now dead after an attack on their positions by pro-government militia.
"By these acts of war, (President) Laurent Gbagbo has definitively buried all the mediation efforts of the African Union and the international community," a statement from Sidiki Konate, spokesman for the rebel New Forces said.
The statement came after militia attacked rebels in Logouale, north of the western town of Duekoue.
Ivory Coast has been divided into a rebel-held north and government-held south since a rebellion in September 2002 triggered civil war.
