Review of the Ivorian Press, Tuesday 27 August 2013
Le
Mandat:
Political dialogue between the government and certain opposition parties grouped
under the Permanent Framework for Dialoge is scheduled to resume on 6 September.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Kablan Duncan is expected to persuade the FPI party to
resume political talks aimed creating favourable condition for true
reconciliation and a lasting peace.
L'Inter:
A clash between youths of the Malinke and Guere communities in Duekoue was
preempted on Monday following the timely intervention of the local
administrative authorities. Tension rose on Sunday night when a youth of peuhl
origin was attacked with a machete in a quarter inhabited mostly by the Guere.
AIP
(Ivorian News Agency):
The Constitutional Court has declared itself incompetent to entertain a petition
by the Ivorian Civil Society Convention and the NGO "SOS Exclusion" calling for
the postponement of the parliamentary vote on the bill authorising the the head
of state to ratify the 1961 Convention on stateless persons. The Court , in a
decision published on 20 August, said the two civil society organizations were
not qualified to demand the suspension of a bill under examination at the
National Assembly.
Soir
Info:
The President of the Rally for Progress and Peace RPP party, Laurent Dona
Fologo says the adoption of the bill on nationality and land ownership
constitutes a time bomb, remarking that the bill was "hastily adopted by a
limping National Assembly."
Fratmat.info:
The consultative phase of the national reconciliation process began throughout
the national territory last Wednesday. This phase expected to last four weeks,
will consist in listening to members of the public about their opinion
concerning the reconciliation process,providing a forum for victims to air their
grievances, investigations and public hearings.
Le
Patriote:
A strike by taxis equipped with taxi meters was effectively adhered to yesterday
in Abidjan. Commuters in the city faced enormous difficulties getting to work as
the 5-day strike went into effect despite an earlier announcement suspending the
strike. The strike action is in protest against the circulation of unmarked
inter-communal transport vehicles which have not fulfilled the conditions for
plying the taxi business.