The United Nations, which has responsibility for guiding the elections process, is offering its good offices to assist renewed discussions.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to give Ivory Coast's prime minister, Charles Konan Banny, left, sweeping new powers to guide the nation to elections within a year.
African heads of state on Wednesday refused to recognize rebel leader Michel Djotodia's self-appointment as president of Central African Republic, calling instead for the creation of a new transitional body to guide the country to elections.
Their task, once seated as an interim government, would be to make policy on economic recovery, a new currency, a new judiciary, a census and electoral law to guide the first democratic elections in about a year's time.
Kafando's nomination was announced just a few hours before officials signed a transition charter to guide the country towards elections scheduled for 2015.
It was far from clear that his bid for a second term would be successful or that he would emerge as one of the leading contenders on Jan . 14 when the committee elects a chairman to guide the party through an election cycle where the chief goal is defeating President Obama.
The Governing Council of Iraq dissolved itself when a new Iraqi government, led by a new prime minister, Iyad Allawi, stepped forward to guide the country toward democratic elections.
His government, which includes more than 30 other senior leaders, is supposed to guide the country toward democratic elections in January.
Government officials have insisted that only members of the old ruling party have the experience necessary to guide the country to free elections in six months, and they appear to be trying to wait out the protests.
With bombs and mortar shells exploding outside, a new Iraqi government stepped forward Tuesday to guide the country toward democratic elections, less than a month from the day the United States will formally restore sovereignty to this restive land.
