Ivory Coast's government has ordered an investigation into allegations of fraud by the electoral commission. Last weekend, President Laurent Gbagbo accused the commission of trying to register hundreds of thousands of ineligible people.
Ivory Coast has long attracted migrants from neighbouring countries and their eligibility to vote was a key cause of the civil war which started in 2002. The long-delayed presidential elections are due in a few weeks time.
Interior Minister Desire Tagro said he had called in prosecutors following the heated row over the allegations. Since Mr Gbagbo's comments there have been calls for the resignation of electoral commission head Robert Mambe, who is from an opposition party.
Correspondents say the inquiry could further delay the polls. The vote has been put off several times since Mr Gbagbo's term ended in 2005. The world's biggest cocoa producer is slowly recovering after being cut in half by a civil war for several years.
The former rebel New Forces seized northern Ivory Coast in 2002. They are now sharing power with Mr Gbagbo under a United Nations-backed peace deal.
Source: BBC
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