The Senegalese foreign minister, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, has arrived in Ivory Coast on a new mediation mission.

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"Morocco will host the pool matches, to be followed by a gala dinner to which all African leaders will be invited, " Senegal's foreign minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said.

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"We intend to link up with what these young African footballers did for Africa's football during the World Cup 2002 and what AAA does for Africans, " Gadio told a Dakar press conference.

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