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| 2000, July 23 |
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| A national referendum favored a new constitution and elections that would reestablish civilian rule in Ivory Coast, but in August the September elections were postponed. | 1 |
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| Oct. 6 |
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| Ivory Coast's Supreme Court disqualified two main opposition party contenders from running in the presidential election scheduled for Oct. 22. Alassane Ouattara and Emile Bombet were removed from the race by a Court favoring the incumbent leader, Gen. Robert Guei, who remained in hiding until Nov. 13. In further pursuing office, Ouattara was ruled ineligible to run for a parliamentary position on Nov. 30. | 2 |
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| Dec. 4–5 |
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| Riots protesting Ouattara's exclusion from elections and opposing newly elected president Laurent Gbagbo erupted throughout Ivory Coast. | 3 |
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| Dec. 10 |
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| Gbagbo broke his public promise to postpone parliamentary elections for a week so that Ouattara could attempt to qualify himself through the courts. The Dec. 10 election went on as originally scheduled. The RDR boycotted the election; therefore most of the seats went to Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI). | 4 |
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