Côte d'Ivoire
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UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UN-Geführt)
Beginn: 04/04
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Beginn: 09/02
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Soro demande le départ de Gbagbo (10.09.2005)
(Quelle: Le Monde) Le chef de la rébellion ivoirienne des Forces Nouvelles (FN), Guillaume Soro, a appelé, samedi 10 septembre, le président ivoirien Laurent Gbagbo à quitter le pouvoir le 30 octobre. A cette date devait se tenir l'élection présidentielle, mais tous...
Impossible poll schedule (07.09.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) It will be almost impossible for the polls to be held on schedule by the end of next month in Ivory Coast, a United Nations envoy has acknowledged. Elections envoy Antonio Monteiro said there was a great risk of a return to civil war if the country failed to hold elections acceptable...
Les SMS sont devenus une arme qui alimente la tension parmi la population (06.09.2005)
(Quelle: Le Monde) Une nouvelle arme de déstabilisation, facile d'emploi et bon marché, a fait son apparition en Côte d'Ivoire: le texto (SMS). A l'approche du week-end de préférence, des messages anonymes circulent de téléphone à téléphone inondant...
African Union, United Nations to decide on Ivory Coast mediation (05.09.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) South Africa Monday said it was up to the African Union, and not Ivory Coast's rebels, to decide whether President Thabo Mbeki should continue mediation efforts in the strife-torn west African country. In a first reaction since the New Forces rebels last week announced they...
Gbagbo revises contested nationality laws (02.09.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has issued a new version of laws on electoral matters and a nationality issue after causing a storm of protest in the divided country, his office announced Friday. … Previous versions of the three texts deeply angered both rebels in...
UN soldier stabbed (31.08.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) A Moroccan United Nations peacekeeper in Ivory Coast has died after being stabbed and attacked with machetes, the UN has said. … Meanwhile, South Africa dismissed suggestions that its role as mediator was about to end.
UN official says Côte d’Ivoire nationals must take ownership of peace process (31.08.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The peace process in the Côte d’Ivoire has moved from globalization, with United Nations involvement, to Africanization, with African Union (AU) mediation, and now Ivorians must take responsibility for nationalizing the next steps, the head of the UN peacekeeping...
Opposition rejects poll (29.08.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) The four largest opposition parties in Ivory Coast say elections scheduled for 30 October cannot happen and have called for a transition government. They argue that it would be impossible to hold free and fair presidential elections at that time, and point out that the country is...
Annan questions abilities of those leaders who foment discord in Côte d’Ivoire (24.08.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The peacekeeping UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) has denounced declarations calling for a coup in the West African country as exacerbating existing social and political tensions and impeding efforts to restore peace and stability to the divided country. Published...
Les rebelles ivoiriens sont prêts à jouer la carte du coup d'Etat contre M. Gbagbo à Abidjan (23.08.2005)
(Quelle: Le Monde) La rébellion ivoirienne des Forces nouvelles (FN) exige le départ du président Laurent Gbagbo, présenté comme le 'principal obstacle à la paix' . Guillaume Soro, le secrétaire général des FN, plaide pour 'une solution à la...
In Côte d’Ivoire, UN representative for elections is pleased with first mission (22.08.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) Despite many difficulties, the current momentum in Côte d’Ivoire is positive as it gears up for October elections, the United Nations High Representative for the elections, Antonio Monteiro, said as he wrapped up his first visit to the West African country emerging from...
UN mission welcomes disarmament plan from western militias (17.08.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations mission in Côte d’Ivoire has welcomed the commitment of the armed groups in the western region of the West African country to start disarming next Wednesday. According to the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI), the groups that have...
La médiation de M. Mbeki est critiquée par l'opposition (17.08.2005)
(Quelle: Le Monde) La rébellion et l'opposition ivoiriennes ne cachent pas leur déception. Pour elles, le président sud-africain, Thabo Mbeki, médiateur dans la crise en Côte d'Ivoire, ne les comprend pas. Les partis politiques parlent d'une 'crise de confiance' tandis que...
Blue helmets thwarted by angry crowds, Kofi Annan speaks out (15.08.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Hostile mobs continue to block the movement of United Nations peacekeepers and other UN officials in Cote d’Ivoire, spurring Secretary General Kofi Annan over the weekend to urge Ivorians to back off. In only the latest in a string of incidents, menacing crowds in Gagnoa...
UN election monitor arrives (09.08.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) The UN representative for the Ivory Coast who will monitor preparations for the upcoming elections, has arrived here, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. Antonio Monteiro, the 61-year-old former Portuguese foreign minister, arrived Monday night, said UN spokesman Hamadoun Toure....
South African mediators say laws comply with peace plan, rebels upset (08.08.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) President Laurent Gbagbo last month do conform to the country's peace plan, dealing a blow to rebels who had refused to start disarming saying the laws were inadequate. As part of a plan thrashed out in Pretoria at the end of June to end Cote d'Ivoire's three-year crisis, Gbagbo...
UN peacekeeping mission deplores efforts to obstruct its work (05.08.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations mission in Côte d'Ivoire says its human rights and civilian police teams have run into outright hostility from the military and the populace in Government-controlled areas and, despite complaints to the Government, obstructions to their movement 'have...
Diplomats say Gbagbo laws comply with peace deal (03.08.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) The six legal texts, passed by presidential decree on 15 July, were revised by a delegation of independent legal advisors from Rwanda and Burundi to make sure they were in keeping with the January 2003 peace deal known as Linas-Marcoussis and a more recent accord hammered out in...
Ivory Coast opposition concerned over possible delay in election (02.08.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Opposition parties in the Ivory Coast expressed concern Tuesday about a possible 'constitutional void' if presidential elections are not held as scheduled on October 30. Electoral rolls have not been published as required by the west African country's constitution three months...
Kein Wille zum Frieden (02.08.2005)
(Quelle: taz) Von Demobilisierung und freien Wahlen ist nach den jüngsten bewaffneten Auseinandersetzungen keine Rede mehr. … Seit den Angriffen zu Beginn dieser Woche übernehmen radikale Positionen zunehmend die Politik.
Expert Panel calls on Security Council to clarify sanctions regime in Côte d’Ivoire (29.07.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The expert panel recommending ways of improving the arms embargo on Côte d’Ivoire has called on the Security Council to more tightly define the ban on weapons flows in the divided country after encountering “widespread confusion” among neighbouring West...
UN finds no evidence of combat in reported town attacks (27.07.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d'Ivoire has found no evidence of significant combat operations between Ivorian security forces and alleged assailants in two towns that reportedly came under attack on Saturday, potentially jeopardizing nascent...
SA to beef up presence (25.07.2005)
(Quelle: SABC News) South Africa is set to beef up its presence in the Ivory Coast. President Thabo Mbeki says South Africa will deploy personnel with the Ivorian police, the military and in the office of the prime minister. The Ivory Coast is scheduled to have elections in October of this year.
Unidentified gunmen attack police stations in Abidjan suburb, occupy nearby town (24.07.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Unidentified armed men attacked two police stations on the outskirts of Abidjan on Saturday night and went on to occupy the town of Agboville, 80 km to the north, the armed forces of Cote d'Ivoire said in a statement read on out on state television on Sunday. … Spokesmen...
UNOCI forces in state of alert (24.07.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) forces are in state of alert following an attack on Saturday night against the Gendarme brigade and the police station of Anyama (north of Abidjan) by unidentified assailants. According to information received from the Ivorian...
Doubts over peace plans (18.07.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) Ivory Coast's former ruling party has said it has not seen the laws decreed by President Laurent Gbagbo, which are supposed to move on the peace process. Mr Gbagbo said he had passed the laws on Friday but senior PDCI official Boa Thiemele Amoakon told the BBC that they have not yet...
Secretary-General to appoint High Representative for elections (15.07.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The new United Nations High Representative for the Elections in war-scarred and ethnically divided Côte d'Ivoire will be former Portuguese Foreign Minister António Monteiro, a UN spokeswoman said today.
Mediators push for October presidential poll (11.07.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) Under pressure from an increasingly demanding and exasperated international community, Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d'Ivoire's head of state, has set Oct. 30 as the date for new presidential election. South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is mediating the Ivorian conflict, also...
Ivorians agree disarmament plan (10.07.2005)
(Quelle: New York Times) Warring parties in Ivory Coast agreed to a timetable for disarmament ahead of national elections on Oct. 30, rebel and government officials said Saturday. Military officials of the southern-based government and rebels have been meeting since Thursday to work out the...
UN report links Ivory Coast massacre to Liberian mercenaries (08.07.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) An internal United Nations intelligence report has linked Liberian mercenaries to a massacre that killed dozens in Ivory Coast's volatile west last month. The report has surfaced as the UN's human rights chief is in the country to combat rights violations. The report focuses on...
Rights abuses across the board (05.07.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) Talks to end years of rebellion in the Côte d'Ivoire resumed this week at the South African capital. But although government and rebel representatives in Pretoria may be speaking of peace, the areas they control are marked by persistent human rights abuses. A report issued...
Ivory Coast foes set new deadline for disarmament (29.06.2005)
(Quelle: SABC News) Warring parties in Ivory Coast have agreed to begin disarming immediately and to complete the process by August 20. The announcement came after two days of talks in Pretoria. Both government and rebels noted that a peace accord brokered by President Thabo Mbeki last April and...
Security Council extends mandate of UN mission (27.06.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire and boosted its troop strength by less than half of what the head of mission requested. It also authorized Secretary-General Kofi Annan to initiate plans to...
More ethnic violence in southwestern Ivory Coast (21.06.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Ethnic violence erupted again at the weekend in southwestern Ivory Coast despite a state of emergency and tighter security in this area where more than 100 people have died in the past month, the military said Tuesday. An army officer said that two people were shot and their...
Ivory Coast leader bolsters security ahead of polls (20.06.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo bolstered the country's military presence in the troubled west and in the main city Abidjan on Friday, saying he wanted to ensure elections could go ahead as planned in October. Gbagbo appointed a military governor for the west of the...
Rebels deny they pledged to disarm later this month (13.06.2005)
(Quelle: allAfrica) Plans to start disarming Cote d'Ivoire's warring parties in two weeks time looked shaky on Monday as the rebels denied signing any commitment to begin the process on 27 June and accused President Laurent Gbagbo of planning to rekindle the country's civil war. 'We never committed...
UN warns of "long tribal war" in western Ivory Coast (10.06.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) UN forces in Ivory Coast fear a 'long tribal war' in western Ivory Coast, where recent ethnic clashes killed more than 70 people, a report on human rights in the divided country said Friday. The report covered events in Ivory Coast in March and April, before the latest incidents...
SANDF team sent to Ivory Coast (10.06.2005)
(Quelle: SABC News) A six-strong South African National Defence Force (SANDF) team left for the Ivory Coast today, military authorities said in a statement. The six are going to prepare the way for a 40-member South African military advisory and monitoring team that will follow. … 'While...
Ivory Coast head condemns attacks (09.06.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has called the recent massacres in Duekoue crimes against humanity. He said more than 100 people were killed in the incident in the town in the west of the country last week. President Gbagbo contradicted most views of the Duekoue killings when he...
Tueries de Duékoué: la "passivité" des militaires au centre des critiques (03.06.2005)
(Quelle: Le Monde) Après les tueries interethniques à Duékoué et sa région, dans l'ouest ivoirien, qui ont fait mercredi et jeudi 3 juin au moins 70 morts entre autochtones Guéré et Dioula du nord, les forces armées ivoiriennes sont accusées de...
UN to help prepare for elections (03.06.2005)
(Quelle: SABC News) The Security Council has authorised the United Nations to help prepare for the October presidential election in Ivory Coast, but delayed action on a request for more peacekeeping troops for the shaky West African nation. A resolution drafted by France and approved unanimously by...
Security Council extends mandate of UN peacekeeping mission (03.06.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) The Security Council today extended for three weeks the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire and the French troops supporting it, “with a view to renewing it for seven months” and raising the possibility that it might expand the UN operation...
More than 40 villagers killed in machete attacks, says UN mission (01.06.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) Residents of a village in western Côte d’Ivoire fled the area after unidentified attackers, armed with machetes, killed or wounded more than 100 people overnight, dealing a blow to the reconciliation attempts of the past month, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in...
French troops no obstacle to peace-UN (30.05.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) French troops serving in Ivory Coast are not an obstacle to peace despite protests against their presence in the war-divided former colony, the U.N. envoy to the West African nation said on Saturday. Pierre Schori also said a new resolution on the mandate of 4,000 French and...
Signed agreements means disarmament going forward: UN envoy (29.05.2005)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Ivory Coast's foes have signed their commitments to the disarmament process and will be pushed to make good on those signatures, the new UN special envoy to the restive west African state said Saturday. 'For me, what counts is the signed accords and that's what counts for the...
Ivorian militias to be disbanded (25.05.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) The dismantling of several militias who support Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is set to begin. Closing down the armed groups was one of the priorities of a deal signed in Pretoria, South Africa, last month. The militiamen, of whom there are several thousand mostly from the...
UN sends electoral review mission to Côte d'Ivoire (20.05.2005)
(Quelle: UN News) A special United Nations mission was expected to arrive in Côte d'Ivoire's capital today to review preparations and timelines for the October presidential elections in the West African country over the next fortnight. The mission, based in Abidjan, will look at plans for...
Former political foes strike pact to oust Gbagbo (18.05.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) With the war-torn nation headed for key presidential elections 30 October, four opposition groups - two major parties and two smaller ones - signed a deal in Paris to join forces in a new coalition called the “Rally of Houphouetistes for Democracy and Peace.” …...
Start of disarmament put back to 27 June, rebels remain guarded (16.05.2005)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Army and rebel chiefs in Cote d'Ivoire have set 27 June as the start date for a long-delayed disarmament programme, which is designed to pave the way for national reunification and presidential elections in October. … However, the New Forces rebel movement has ignored a...
No deal in arms talks (08.05.2005)
(Quelle: BBC) Representatives of the rebels and army in Ivory Coast have failed to reach agreement on a disarmament timetable after five days of talks. But they did say they would meet again in the next few days. Under a peace agreement mediated by South Africa in April, government forces and...