UNOCI'S deputy
chief receives special representative of African Union

Le Nouveau
Réveil,
- The Deputy Special Representative of the United nations
Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Arnauld Akodjénou, held a working session
on Wednesday, 5 October 2001, in Abidjan, with the special representative of the
African Union, Ambroise Niyonsaba. UNOCI's deputy chief said the meeting was
part of his encounters with diplomatic missions and institutions in Côte
d'Ivoire.  

The IEC is
expecting 6 billion from its partners

Le Mandat
– On Wednesday, 5 October, the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
received a delegation from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) led by its
vice president, Mr. Koné Sourou at the UN mission's headquarters in Abidjan.
During the discussions, Arnauld Akodjènou, the deputy special representative of
the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, reaffirmed to his
guests, the Mission's willingness to provide logistic, technical, financial and
human resources to the Independent Electoral Commission for the legislative
elections which are scheduled to be held on 11 December.  The IEC's
vice-president, Koné Sourou, raised the issue of funding, stating that « the
organisation of the legislative elections is expected to cost 13 billion FCFA ».
Meanwhile, 7 billion has already been raised by the Ivorian Government. "So, the
electoral commission is expecting six billion from Côte d'Ivoire's partners," he
added. Whatever the case, Alassane Ouattara and his government would like the
elections to be organised properly on the date indicated.  

IEC training missions
throughout the country

Le Jour plus
 –
To train and sensitise the
local commissioners
on the
organisation of the poll on 11 December so that they can in turn pass on the
message to their respective bases.  (...) For the vice-president Sourou Koné, the
IEC intends giving a particular touch to these elections. "We would like our
local representatives to know all the regulations and the organizational
aspects". (...) The training whose objective is to ensure that the elections are
held under democratic conditions will focus on the electoral code, how polling
stations should be organised and the recent decision by the Government to
increase the number of MPs to 255.  (...)

During his visit
to Ghana, Ouattara asks Atta-Mills to carry out the arrest warrants; Atta-Mills:
«Nobody will be allowed to use our country to destabilise Côte d'Ivoire »

L'Inter -
The president of the Republic, Alassane Ouattara, was on a state visit to Ghana
yesterday Thursday in Ghana, during which he asked the Ghanaian authorities, led
by President John Atta-Mills, to carry out the international arrest warrants
against close associates of Laurent Gbagbo who are in exile in the country
following the post-electoral war. According to a joint communiqué, Alassane
Ouattara and Atta-Mills held talks during which they discussed the situation of
Ivorian refugees in Ghana and their return home, among other issues. "President
Ouattara asked Ghana to consider carrying out the arrest warrants against those
accused of criminal acts during the crisis and freezing their accounts, » said
the communique a copy of which was give Agence France presse (AFP).

War Crimes in
Côte d'Ivoire: here is the list of the accused soldiers

Soir Info  -

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Thursday October 6 2011, a
report on events which happened in Côte d'Ivoire. The two political camps were
accused by the international organization of committing crimes. The organization
said that it was surprised to notice that the new authorities were trying their
best to punish only one camp. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), "since the
day he took power, the first measures by Ouattara to fight against impunity was
biased". Six months after the fall of Laurent Gbagbo, the new strong man of Cote
d'Ivoire is accused of forgetting his promises of equal justice and his desire
to bring to court criminals of its own camp. For Human Rights Watch (HRW), "(...)
despite his promise to punish people who have committed dreadful crimes, Mr.
Ouattara has done nothing to bring to justice members of the Republican Forces.
The justice is in reality the justice of the winners". According to the
international organization when fighting stopped by May, the combattants of
Ouattara committed atrocities which were nothing but crimes that can be judged
by international court. Officers of the two parties were involved in war crimes
and even crime against humanity. Ouattara and his Minister of Justice, Jeannot
Kouadio Ahoussou, are criticized for their passivity. Even worse, the
organization noticed that some of their military officers involved in crimes
have been promoted. "Time has come- HRW said- for Ouattara to prove by deeds
that his desire for impartial justice is far from a mere speech"

The central
committee of FPI is clear: "there will be no effective reconciliation before the
release of Laurent Gbagbo"

Notre Voie  –
The

Central Committee and the secretaries general of the Ivorian
Popular Front (FPI) met yesterday at the headquarters of the National congress
of the Resistance and Democracy, at Cocody. During the four-hour meeting they
discussed about the meeting some members of the FPI had with President Ouattara.
They talked about the forthcoming International Criminal Court investigation on
war crimes in Cote d'Ivoire. The committee after encouraging dialogue and
reconciliation among Ivorians, warned the executive board of the FPI to be
extremely vigilant. As a matter of fact, they agreed with the necessity for
reconciliation but they argued that to be complete reconciliation must start
with the release of Gbagbo, his wife, his son and all political prisoners.

Normalization/Man, Bouaké, Korhogo...here is why Prime minister Guillaume Soro is
running

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan
- Korhogo, Séguéla, Bouna, Bouaké, Odienné and Man are some of the cities,
Guillaume Soro has visited these last two weeks to install the Republican Forces
of Cote d'Ivoire. The objective of Soro Guillaume is the create conditions for
the resumption of a normal life in the ex-rebel zones. His aim is to give a
chance to every region of Cote d'Ivoire to benefit from the local resources. The
2012 state budget takes into account these aspects of Ivorian reality. Guillaume
Soro wants to secure the ex-rebel zones.