PRESS DIGEST - Ivory Coast - Aug 29 .  ABIDJAN 1996-08-29  These are significant stories in the Ivorian press on Thursday . [START_ENT] Reuters [END_ENT] has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .  FRATERNITE MATIN  - Cabinet meeting establishes five new administrative regions and four new departments as part of government decentralisation policy .  LA VOIE  - Members of parliament seek higher pay and more benefits .  The speaker of parliament , Charles Bauza Donwahi , will meet President Henri Konan Bedie on September 3 to discuss their request .  - Deputy director of animal health department Douati Alphonse says his agents have seized 46 tonnes of illicit pork in a two-week operation to ensure compliance with a ban imposed after an outbreak of swine fever .  LE JOUR  - Raphael Lakpe , publisher of the daily Le Populaire , was released on Wednesday evening after three days in custody and will appear in court on Thursday morning .  - Cabinet meeting appoints Colonel Severin Konan Kouame as gendarmerie commander , replacing General Joseph Tanny , who has been appointed secretary-general of the National Security Council .  -- Abidjan newsroom +225 21 90 90
PRESS DIGEST - Ivory Coast - Aug 29 .  ABIDJAN 1996-08-29  These are significant stories in the Ivorian press on Thursday .
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has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .  FRATERNITE MATIN  - Cabinet meeting establishes five new administrative regions and four new departments as part of government decentralisation policy .  LA VOIE  - Members of parliament seek higher pay and more benefits .  The speaker of parliament , Charles Bauza Donwahi , will meet President Henri Konan Bedie on September 3 to discuss their request .  - Deputy director of animal health department Douati Alphonse says his agents have seized 46 tonnes of illicit pork in a two-week operation to ensure compliance with a ban imposed after an outbreak of swine fever .  LE JOUR  - Raphael Lakpe , publisher of the daily Le Populaire , was released on Wednesday evening after three days in custody and will appear in court on Thursday morning .  - Cabinet meeting appoints Colonel Severin Konan Kouame as gendarmerie commander , replacing General Joseph Tanny , who has been appointed secretary-general of the National Security Council .  -- Abidjan newsroom +225 21 90 90
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