UNOCI launches
fund

L'Inter  –

A Local Transition Fund aimed at consolidating achievements in
humanitarian activities and financing community rehabilitation was launched on
Wednesday 7 July in Côte d'Ivoire, UNOCI's deputy spokesman, Kenneth Blackman,
announced on Thursday 8 July at the Mission's weekly press conference. The fund
was launched at UNOCI's headquarters during a meeting which was jointly presided
over by the Office of the Prime Minister and the UN Resident Coordinator, Mr.
Steven Ursino, who is also Acting Deputy Special Representative of the United
Nations Secretary-general for Côte d'Ivoire. "It is aimed at helping people who
have been made destitute and disadvantaged by the crisis", he said.

UNOCI's mission
– Forty-six police officers honoured with United Nations medal

Nuit et Jour  –

Forty-six members of UNOCI's police, on Wednesday 7 July 2010,
were decorated in Bouaké. The police officers from Benin, Central African
Republic, France, Togo, Senegal, Niger, Cameroun, Canada, Egypt, Turkey and
Djibouti received the United Nations medal. According to Commissioner Sylvestre
Kibeceri, deputy Commander of UNOCI's police, the medal is a sign of the
international community's gratitude for their active participation in the
reestablishment of peace in Côte d'Ivoire.

"Continue the
work you have begun and  which you sometimes have to carry out under difficult
conditions, until Côte d'Ivoire regains peace", he recommended  (...) He also
revealed that more than 200 Ivorian policemen and gendarmes are participating in
peacekeeping missions throughout the world. (...) Several administrative, judicial
and political officials attended the medal parade ceremony.

Electoral
process and verification of the voters' list: 4 positions of the FPI which
blocked the operation

Le Nouveau
Réveil  –
18 days after the verification of the provisional voters' list on a target
population of 1,792,356 petitioners was launched, only 166,108 cases remained to
be manually verified. The remarkable results of the work carried out by the INS
and Sagem Security is the sign of a smooth holding of the operation under the
supervision of the technical secretariat of the working team on the general
identification of the population (Prime Minister's Office). But just when
Ivorians and the international community were expecting the launching of the
manual phase of the verification of the provisional voters' list, the political
party of Pascal Affi N'Guessan, FPI, rejected the provisional results stemming
from the computer verification, condemned the working methodology it previously
agreed on, and then proposed a manual verification of the target population of
1,792,356 petitioners. In other words, the FPI demands that people return to
the  civil registry centres in order to search for the registration number of
each of the 1,792,356 petitioners. The problem raised by this proposal is that
we should first be sure that the register of Mister Y exists. Whereas today,
according to official figures, 650 thousand names registered have disappeared or
have been destroyed. Has the reconstitution of the civil status registry 
throughout the country been completed? How much time will be spent to resolve
the issue of all those who would be involved in this situation? Another fact,
the FPI demands the list of target population of 1,792,356 petitioners to be put
aside and processed after elections. Does it mean that the FPI through these
complaints is refusing to hold election? Because how can someone campaign to
obtain the verification of the provisional voters' list after the departure of
the ex-chairman of the IEC, Robert Beugré Mambé, and then a few months later say
"that the verification should be done after elections? Is Pascal Affi
N'Guessan's party logical? Obviously not! Why is it only now that the FPI is
asking for 1,792,356 petitioners to be removed from the 5,300,000 voters to whom
we add the 498,000 newly registered persons? As a third proposal, the FPI
demands that the other parties accept the 672,000 petitioners whose fathers' and
mothers' names have been found on the list and the remainder, that is to say
about 1,092,000 petitioners, to be manually verified. The manual verification is
doomed to fail because of the poor condition of the civil status registry.  Will
we be able to organize elections under the "refondation"? No, never! since the
timetable agreed upon  with the other parties has just been questioned. We must
take the necessary time to conduct the verification, according to the FPI. Time,
for Affi N'Guessan Pascal's party, is  time of the return of Jesus Christ on
earth.

Major Jean-Noel
Abéhi: "There will be a war of liberation, and we will do it"

Le Nouveau
Réveil
 - In an interview he gave to L'Inter at Lourdes, in France, on
May 22, 2010, Major Jean-Noel Abéhi, the head of the Gendarmerie Military tanks
unit, said that the resumption of war is possible. He even predicted that the
signs of the resumption of hostilities would be clear in the coming days. Two
months after, the events seem to go in that direction. (...)

L'Inter: was
your pilgrimage to Lourdes, a good experience?

Major Jean-Noel
Abéhi:
(...) I enjoy the protection of God. God spoke to us here at Lourdes. God told
us that there will be problems once back home, but we will overcome these
difficulties. Today, while I am here at Lourdes, the will of God is clear in my
mind. The Lord revealed to me that the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire will end by a
confrontation. God gave me the assurance that that confrontation will lead to
the victory of the Army to which I belong. I have already been warned. Today I
have decided to predict the oncoming event, so that when it happens, we all
realize that God has wanted it and he has done it.

L'Inter: Major,
are you saying that the Ouagadougou Political Agreement will not end the crisis
in Côte d'Ivoire?

Major Jean-Noel
Abéhi:
The politicians have done their job. I am a soldier, I am a man of God, I work
with arms. What I know from history and from what we see around the world, when
there is a rebellion in a country, agreements never make peace. To have a true
peace in Côte d'Ivoire, it is necessary that one of the two armies in conflict
wins the war. We can not bypass that and say we will achieve peace by signing
agreements. In any case, there is very little chance that the agreements - I do
not know how many people have already signed - lead to a real peace in Côte
d'Ivoire. If it works, that is great. As far as I am concerned, I am convinced
that there is a last war I have to fight against the enemy for a final peace in
Côte d'Ivoire. There will be a war of liberation and that war, I will do it.
(...)

Parliamentary
investigation on public sectors: The FPI is withdrawing its   proposed
resolution

Le Patriote  –
Act of cowardice or realpolitik? For sure the FPI parliamentary group has not
spoken its mind, regarding its desire to create a parliamentary investigation
commission on the activities of public sectors such as the management of urban
land, agricultural raw material in CNO zones, management of mobile phone system.
The FPI parliamentary group merely and simply withdrew its proposed resolution
as soon as committee work started. (...) Obviously, the FPI has been caught in its
own trap. It cannot say that it is not appropriate to create a parliamentary
investigation commission regarding the Tagro affair because the sociopolitical
environment is not conducive and accept that a commission for the public sectors
is created. The treachery would have been too flagrant. (...)