The President of
the Republic, his Excellency Alassane Ouattara, met with UNOCI's Number 2 and
some Ambassadors. They discussed security.

Fraternité Matin
 –
The Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations
Secretary-General for Cote d'Ivoire,
Arnauld Akodjénou, met on
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 with the Ivorian head of state, Alassane Ouattara.

"The meeting was part of the regular consultations UNOCI has with
the President of the Republic, during which we discuss several issues," Mr.
Akodjenou said. The meeting was attended by the ambassadors of France, the
United States, the chargé d'Affaires of the United Kingdom's embassy and the
Representative of the European Union. "Today, we mainly discussed the reform of
the security sector," the number two of the United Nations Operation in Côte
d'Ivoire (UNOCI) revealed.

The Independent
Electoral Commission (IEC) met with its partners

Nord-Sud -
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and its partners such as UNOCI met at
the UN mission's Headquarters yesterday to talk about the best way to have a
consensual certification of the election.  After two hour discussion they
decided to meet with the Constitutional Counsel to have the same comprehension
of its texts.

Destabilization
of Ouattara's regime: Guinea and Togo accused/Liberian frontier closed since
Saturday.

Le Mandat

 –
According
to some newspapers, and some diplomatic sources Commander Séka Séka who was
arrested last Saturday at Abidjan airport was going to join his troops
positioned on the Guinean border.
His final
destination was Conakry.
This fact raises questions. The Ivorian authorities wanted to
know the kind of game the Guinean President Alpha Conde is really playing. This
question is important because of the cold relation the Ivorian and Guinean
presidents have. Furthermore, Togo seems to be on the list of countries that are
planning something against Cote d'Ivoire. As matter of fact, the presence of
number of Ivoirian soldiers in this country is very troublesome for Ivorian
authorities who have asked Togo to expel them what Togo has refused ever since
to do. Are Conakry and Lomé going to be the place where the destabilization of
Cote d'Ivoire starts?

The Attack
against Agban camp: the link with FPI

Nord-Sud  –

The coincidences observed in the attack on the gendarmerie camp
Agban, the arrest of Maj. Séka Séka and the insistence of the Ivorian Popular
Front (FPI) to hold its meeting in Yopougon eventually convince the most
skeptical that the proponents of Laurent Gbagbo have not abandoned their plans
to remove the regime of Alassane Ouattara. And in all likelihood, the attack in
Tai, perpetrated on the night of September 16 and the morning of the 17 by
militias backed by Liberian mercenaries could be part of the destabilization
plan. They called this operation, "warm-up." In a statement posted on the site
of an online media, the Movement for the sovereignty and democracy in Côte
d'Ivoire (MSD-CI) based in The Gambia, have claimed responsibility for the
attack. In reality, MSD-CI, which has claimed the killings of Tai, only a few
days before the attack of Agban, would be a hiding uniform for the pundits of
the former regime. The warm-up ended with a score dead and caused some sort of
commotion among the Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI).

Côte d'Ivoire:
The security of Ivorians in the hands of foreign nationals

Le Temps
 – The military situation in Côte d'Ivoire is becoming volatile. There is
no trust between the actors. The Ivorian presidency prefers to rely on foreign
forces for the safety of Ivorians. The uncertainty is plane to see. What is the
flight plan? It is subject to a whim. If there is one aspect of national life
that is happily seen by everybody it is, of course, security. There is evidence
that since the arrest of President Laurent Gbagbo, on April 11, security which
was not cup of tea of the Forces Nouvelles renamed, Republican Forces of Côte
d'Ivoire (FRCI), has deteriorated. Since then the new tenant of the palace has
decided to call France for help. For these past seven months French Forces can
freely go to Ivorian military bases. There is no secret for them just as they
use to do at the time of Houphouet-Boigny at the expense of Cote d'Ivoire'
sovereignty.