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COTE D'IVOIRE: Facing insecurity with unreformed army
17 October 2012
(IRIN
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Armed raids on military and police bases, a border post and other key installations in Côte d'Ivoire since August are deepening insecurity in a country struggling to forge a unified armed force to help restore stability after 2010-2011 electoral unrest.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96574/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Facing-insecurity-with-unreformed-army
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COTE D'IVOIRE: Universities reopen after political unrest
24 August 2012
(IRIN
),
When Côte d'Ivoire's five public universities reopen on 3 September, 61,000 students will arrive for the first time after almost two years since they were closed in the violent unrest sparked by the disputed 2010 presidential vote. There are fears the influx could cause chaos.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96163/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Universities-reopen-after-political-unrest
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WEST AFRICA: Cleaner toilets to save slums from cholera
16 August 2012
(IRIN
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Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. Most patients are from the city’s various urban slums, where open defecation is rife, toilets are rare, sewage is improperly disposed of, and awareness of cholera is very low. Water and sanitation specialists say unless these problems are addressed, cholera will continue to flourish both in Sierra Leone and throughout West Africa.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96112/WEST-AFRICA-Cleaner-toilets-to-save-slums-from-cholera
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COTE D'IVOIRE: Gunfire and fear in Abidjan
10 August 2012
(IRIN
),
A recent wave of armed attacks in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, is lowering hopes of a steady return to security in a city that suffered some of the worst fighting during the 2010-11 election violence.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96080/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Gunfire-and-fear-in-Abidjan
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COTE D'IVOIRE: Desperation after last IDP refuge razed
9 August 2012
(IRIN
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On the morning of 20 July, after an attack that killed four people around Duékoué, a town in Côte d'Ivoire's turbulent west, a huge crowd surrounded the nearby Nahibly camp hosting 5,000 internally displaced people (IDPs).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96064/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Desperation-after-last-IDP-refuge-razed
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COTE D'IVOIRE: "We should stop killing each other"
3 August 2012
(IRIN
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Dishes and cups scorched brown by flames, and ragged tarpaulin clinging to charred wooden frames litter Nahibly camp for the displaced in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire, after an attack that highlighted persistent tensions in the region.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96024/COTE-D-IVOIRE-We-should-stop-killing-each-other
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COTE D'IVOIRE: Bah Léontine, “Enough is enough”
31 July 2012
(IRIN
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Hundreds of armed youths stormed Côte d’Ivoire’s last camp for the displaced outside Duékoué city in the turbulent western region on 20 July. They killed at least six civilians, torched the camp and drove off the 5,000 people staying there in what has been described as an ethnically motivated attack.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/95988/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Bah-Léontine-Enough-is-enough
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SLIDESHOW: Liberian refugees’ future uncertain
24 July 2012
(IRIN
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Volatile western Côte d’Ivoire may not seem a likely place to seek refuge, but for nearly 20 years it has hosted tens of thousands of Liberian refugees who fled across the border during civil wars (1989-96 and 1999-2003) in their country.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95936/SLIDESHOW-Liberian-refugees-future-uncertain
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COTE D'IVOIRE: Hard road to reconciliation
20 July 2012
(IRIN
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Arbitrary arrests, kidnappings and torture by armed groups and government forces since the end of Côte d’Ivoire’s bloody 2010-2011 post-election unrest are stifling national reconciliation and causing fear and mistrust among civilians.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95910/COTE-D-IVOIRE-Hard-road-to-reconciliation
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COTE D'IVOIRE-LIBERIA: “There is no way I could go back”
19 July 2012
(IRIN
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Like most of his fellow refugees in Grand Gedeh county in the far east of Liberia, “Da Tatouwa” is from the Guéré ethnic group, and fear of an "anti-Guéré genocide" made him flee his home town of Bloléquin in the far west of Côte d'Ivoire in March 2011, as forces loyal to incoming President Alassane Ouattara overran the region. "What we are still waiting for is for Ouattara to offer his own mea culpa [admission that it is his fault], to account for what his allies did to us… Then we might think about going back."
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95901/COTE-D-IVOIRE-LIBERIA-There-is-no-way-I-could-go-back
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