Last updated: 23 february, 2010 - 09:50 GMT

Breakthrough in Ivory Coast

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After a week of sometimes violent protests in Ivory Coast, the prime minister Guillaume Soro says he'll announce a new government today, which will include opposition members.

It was the dissolution of the last government by President Laurent Gbagbo, and his sacking of the electoral commission, that prompted the latest political problems in the country.

So does this announcement, sanctioned by the mediator, President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, mark a breakthrough?

Network Africa's Bernard Otieno asked our reporter John James in Abidjan what has been agreed?

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