Gbagbo detained

Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo was arrested yesterday after French armoured vehicles closed in on the compound where he has been holed up in a bunker.
A column of more than 30 French armoured vehicles moved in on Gbagbo's residence in central Abidjan after helicopter gunships attacked the compound overnight.
"Yes, he has been arrested," Affoussy Bamba, a spokeswoman for Ouattara, told Reuters.
Earlier a Gbagbo adviser in Paris had told Reuters that French special forces had detained Gbagbo after breaking into the compound with tanks.
"Gbagbo has been arrested by French special forces in his residence and has been handed over to the rebel leaders," Gbagbo adviser Toussaint Alain told Reuters in Paris.
Gbagbo's spokesman in Ivory Coast Ahoua Don Mello told Reuters: "President Laurent Gbagbo came out of his bunker and surrendered to the French without opposing resistance."
A French Foreign Ministry source said Gbagbo had been arrested by Ouattara's forces backed by the United Nations and French forces.
Bamba said Gbagbo had been taken to the Hotel Golf in Abidjan, where Ouattara has had his headquarters since the presidential election last November.
Gbagbo had refused to step down after Ouattara won the election, according to results certified by the United Nations, reigniting a civil war that has claimed more than a thousand lives and uprooted a million people.
Residents reported heavy fighting yesterday morning between forces loyal to Ouattara and those backing Gbagbo around Abidjan's Cocody and Plateau districts, still controlled by forces loyal to Gbagbo.