Education/Bingerville – UNOCI
offers a school to Koffikro

Le Jour plus -
The long journeys on foot,
under sun and rain to get to school are over. Koffikro now has its own primary
school with six classes thanks to the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire
(UNOCI). UNOCI officials handed it over to the village during an inauguration
ceremony last Friday. Started in 2002 by residents in the village, the building
of Koffikro public primary school was finally finished thanks to funds 8.502.000
FCFA from UNOCI as part of its Quick Impact Project programme.  (...) Colonel Ali
Nadjombé, commander of TOGOBATT 12, said his team was proud to have contributed
to the project.
(...). In inaugurating the new school which will cater for 180
pupils, the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations
Secretary-General for Cote d' Ivoire, Steve Ursino, said that the project « is
part of UNOCI's efforts to accompany Ivorians in the crisis-resolutuion process.
(...) »

Human Rights – UNOCI
takes note of number of violations

Le Temps -
Several cases of human
rights violations has been registered in Côte d'Ivoire during the last
few months, the protection and documentation unit of the Human Rights Division
of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire.

UNOCI trains some 40 Ivorian
police officers on techniques of maintaining order

Agence
Ivoirienne de Presse (AIP)
- The UN Police
(UNPOL), deployed in the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), from
Monday to Friday, organised a training workshop on the techniques of maintaining
order for 48 Ivorian police officers at the National Police School in Abidjan,
as part of its efforts to build capacity among the forces of law and order in
managing street demonstrations. For the coordinator of UNOCI's Formed Police
Units (FPU), Major Patrice Jourdren, this stage and other training sessions are
only the start of close collaboration between Ivorian police and their brothers
in arm at UNOCI.
(...)

Crisis resolution /
Tête-à-tête Gbagbo - Bédié today: meeting to defuse the bomb?

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan -
If sources
close to the two personalities are to be believed, President Laurent Gbagbo is
meeting the Chairman of the PDCI-RDA, Henri Konan Bédié this morning at the home
of the latter. The Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro who suffers the anger of the
RHDP since the signing of a joint communiqué with the chairman of the IEC as
well as the representative of the Facilitator Mr. Bouréima Badini are expected
to be at the meeting. The sociopolitical situation has been tense during the
last few days with the announcement of a march by youths of RHDP on 15 May 2010.
In addition, the RHDP, along with the PIT, produced a communiqué on Thursday, 6
May rejecting the communiqué announcing the resumption of the appeals process on
the so-called grey list on 10 May 2010.  It is in this atmosphere that the
meeting is supposed to take place.
(...) A sort of
internal dialogue.
We have to go far back into the archives to find an exclusive
meeting between Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié.
(...)
After Bédié, President Gbagbo,
could meet Mr. Ouattara, and all of this could finish with a meeting involving
the four - Gbagbo, Bédié, Ouattara and Soro.

No
money, no resumption of the appeals on Monday

Fraternité Matin  -
The resumption of the appeals, announced by a joint statement of the Prime
Minister Guillaume Soro Kigbafori and the chairman of the Independent Electoral
Commission (IEC) after three months of suspension will not take place on Monday
because of the lack of funding. There is no concrete answer from the Prime
Minister's Office since the Prime Minister was asked to grant a minimum of funds
to the IEC before it resumes the appeals.
The joint statement, as
it came out, was hastily released to the press before the entire contour
required by the IEC and its partners was fully known. As matter of fact, the
Central Committee of the ICE wanted to avoid the problems encountered by Robert
Mambe Beugré's team when agents were sent to the fields before having sufficient
funds. As indicated by our regional correspondents and sources close to the
actors in the electoral process, any claim must first find solutions before the
work starts. According to our sources, the government needed at least one
billion to settle a small part of the money it owed to the actors and service
providers involved in the operation. Among other service, the deployment of the
Supervising Commissioners in the regions where their mission was to train and
mentor local commissioners, the settlement of money of the Security Company and
the owners of houses that served as headquarters for the IEC. These property
owners have been waiting for almost ten months for their rent. (...) This week
will be used to train and sensitize the local commissioners and people who are
going to work in the 415 appeals' committees. Without any doubt, this period
will certainly be used by the Prime Minister's Office and the IEC to build
consensus around the Methodological appeals guide rejected by the opposition.

After Compaoré, and Wade,
Sékouba, ATT is coming to Abidjan

Website:
connectionivoirienne.com
- Malian nationals living in Côte d'Ivoire are waiting for
President Amadou Toumani Touré in late May, a diplomatic source told AfriSCOOP.
The Malians were informed on Sunday, May 9, 2010, of ATT's "probable" visit on
Ivorian soil by the Ambassador of Mali in Ivory Coast. HE Mr. Amadou Ousmane
Touré gave the information in these terms: "President Amadou Toumani Touré is
likely coming here at the end of this month. (...)