Presidential election - Choi
denounces the slow pace of reunification

Fraternité Matin
 - "The Special
Representative of the UN SG, Young-Jin Choi, has presented the 23rd report on
Côte d'Ivoire to the Security Council. He took stock of the peace
process, particularly the implementation of the Ouagadougou political Agreement.
After the closed consultations by the Council, consultations that will produce
the draft of a resolution to be adopted next week, Mr. Choi admitted to the
press "the existence of a parallel electoral list of a half million people that
is now a handicap to the scrupulous respect of the timetable already
established."

UNOCI has not been asked to
carry out an investigation

Fraternité Matin
 - "UNOCI
spokesman, Hamadoun Touré, speaking during the weekly press briefing, which he
hosted in Abidjan, expressed the hope that despite the establishment of the
Monitoring Committee, following the fraud allegations at the IEC, "the timing of
the data validation will be respected." He welcomed the fact that although
appeals were still being treated by some courts, others had finished this phase.
He said that nevertheless, the Mission was following the judicial investigation
initiated by the Ministry of Interior against the IEC and the ongoing national
mediation with great interest. "We are following the two phases," he said. Asked
whether the Mission had been asked to conduct an investigation as suggested by
the chairman of the IEC, Robert Beugré Mambé on January 15, to shed light on
this subject, he was categorical. "Regarding the internal investigation and the
public demand for an investigation by the United Nations, UNOCI has not
officially been approached (...)".

Alcide Djéjdjé (Permanent
Representative of Cote d'Ivoire): "My country will not go to any kind of
election"

Fraternité Matin
 - "The Permanent
Representative of Côte d'Ivoire to the United Nations, Alcide Djedje said that
"Ivorians are certainly eager to go to the elections but not to any kind of
election, especially not to the elections that would bring them back to square
one, that is to say to a new conflict." He was speaking before the fifteen
members of the Security Council during a consultation session yesterday at the
headquarters of the worldwide organization. [...] "

The PURC opposed to the
sending Burkinabe soldiers to Côte d'Ivoire to secure elections

Ivorian Press Agency (AIP)
- "The Party for the Unity of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (PURC), a political
party close to the President, has said no to the sending of a contingent of 500
soldiers from Burkina Faso, to "supposedly" secure the electoral process in Côte
d'Ivoire ...

Presumed fraud in IEC: the
central commission in IEC notes « an obvious failure of some of its services"

Agence Ivoirienne de Presse
(AIP) – "The
Central Commission in the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) expressed
regret on Thursday, over the issue of the presumed fraud at the IEC, "an obvious
failure of some of its services".

March by RHDP youth on 26
January: Bédié, Ouattara, Mabri and Anaky support their youth -RHDP: "Mambé does
not move"

L'Inter  –
"[...] the leaders of PDCI, RDR,
UDPCI and MFA, united within RHDP, have encouraged youths in their respective
parties who have decided to march peacefully to the national television with a
view to liberating it. As in May 2005, presidents Konan Bédié, Allassane
Ouattara, Mabri Toikeusse and Anaky Kobénan signed an official statement which
sums up their wishes and provides their support to the young Houphouetists.

Electoral dispute: Meeting
between "patriots" and the Prime Minister

Fraternité Matin  –
"[...] Charles Blé
Goudé said at the end of an audience (which lasted about one hour), that he and
his friends had come to tell Guillaume Soro that they do not trust the IEC' s
chairman, Robert Beugré Mambé, anymore.