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Mobs in Ivory Coast Attack United Nations Vehicles
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Mobs loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the president who refuses to give up power after losing an election, burned and stoned five United Nations vehicles on Thursday, including an ambulance, a United Nations spokesman said.
The attacks appeared to represent an escalation of Mr. Gbagbo’s campaign against the presence of nearly 10,000 United Nations troops here, assigned among other duties to protect the government of the man who defeated the incumbent in last November’s presidential election, Alassane Ouattara.
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Source: IRIN News
OUAGADOUGOU, 5 March 2007 (IRIN) - President Laurent Gbagbo and New Forces rebel leader Guillaume Soro have signed a peace agreement for Côte d’Ivoire aimed at ending a more than four-year political impasse that has divided the country and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
“Peace is strongly possible in Côte d’Ivoire and the New Forces…are committed to implement the accord that has been signed in a spirit of peace and reconciliation,” said Soro after the agreement was signed on Sunday in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou.
Gbagbo said the accord was the definitive document for peace. “This is the accord for peace. It is peace through Africans and I am proud of it because all the problems in Africa can find a solution here on the continent,” he said.
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Establishing citizenship through public hearings is considered key to consolidating peace in Cote d'Ivoire.
ABIDJAN, 19 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Long-awaited public hearings to determine who is an Ivoirian citizen quietly restarted on Friday under the auspices of the army in the town hall in Adjamé, an inner-city neighbourhood in Abidjan, the country’s commercial centre.
“Ivorians and non-Ivorians: come to the public hearings assured of your safety, so that you will be able to live in a way that is legal,” said a statement issued on Friday from the office of Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny.
The hearings, which had started last July, were stopped in August amidst violence and disagreements between President Laurent Gbagbo and northern-based rebels over the peace process.
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ABIDJAN, 27 March 2007 (IRIN) - Relations between Cote d’Ivoire’s government and the largest rebel group in the country took a major step forward on Tuesday when the two sides agreed to appoint a prominent rebel leader to the position of prime minister.
An agreement, signed on Monday in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, states that Guillaume Soro, head of the Forces Nouvelles, a rebel group that has controlled much of the north of the country since a brief civil war in 2002, will serve as prime minister to President Laurent Gbabgo, head of the government which holds the south.
Soro will replace Charles Konan Banny, an interim prime minister appointed by a United Nations mandate after a delay in the presidential elections last year. Banny said on Ivorian state television on Monday that he is prepared to “sacrifice” himself, and that he had never envisaged holding the post perpetually, though he is yet to officially announce his resignation.
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ABIDJAN, 21 February 2007 (IRIN) - Health authorities in Côte d’Ivoire have reported an outbreak of meningitis in the north of the country where health infrastructure has deteriorated during a more than four-year political impasse that has divided the country.
Thirty-six cases of bacterial meningitis, including six deaths, had been reported at the regional hospital in the city of Bouaké as of 5 February, according to the United Nations humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
“We confirm that there are cases of meningitis in Bouaké,” said a World Health Organisation (WHO) official in Côte d’Ivoire, who requested anonymity because he was speaking without authorisation. “Also, in partnership with the Ivorian Health Ministry, we are pursuing investigations in other health facilities in Bouaké to see if there are other cases.”
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