Chief of staff of Nigerien
army returns home today

Nord Sud  –
Having arrived in Abidjan on
Tuesday, a Nigerien military delegation led by the Chief of staff of the
Nigerien army, General Salou Souleymane, is due to return home today. According
to the chief of operations of Nigerien Armed Forces, Colonel Madougou Amadou,
the three-day visit was aimed at assessing the work of the Nigerien contingent
deployed in Sector East. In this regard, the Nigerien delegation met with the
Principal Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Abou
Moussa.

General Michel Gueu:
"Difficulties facing disarmament are financial"

L'Inter  / Source: ONUCI FM

ONUCI FM:
The cantonment operation is being implemented; after Bouaké and Korhogo, what is
your opinion?

General Michel Gueu:
You know that the 4th complementary agreement to the Ouagadougou Political
Agreement gives 5000 posts to the Forces Nouvelles for the new army, they are
known as volunteers for the new army and they have already passed medical
clearance. I think that 3000 or 4000 have already been selected; they are
therefore ready to join the new army. And among these persons 1,200 have been
selected in Korhogo and for the time being, because of some parameters, 493
elements have been selected and put in the cantonment site in Korhogo.

ONUCI FM:
Are there any difficulties?

General Michel Gueu:
Naturally, we have. They are financial difficulties. Money is the sinews of war
and it is also the sinews of peace. The Chief of Staff of the Forces Nouvelles
needs sufficient and appropriate financial means to proceed to the cantonment of
his elements. (...)

Appeals process threatened in
Bouna and Doropo

Nord Sud  –
The resumption of appeals process is at risk in Bouna and Doropo. This is due to
the fact that the owner of the houses used as offices by the Independent
Electoral Commission (IEC) in both towns, Aboubacar Diabagaté, demands 13-month
rent arrears. "If nothing is done on Monday, we will close the offices in Bouna
and Doropo for unpaid arrears amounting 1,690,000 FCFA. We are out of patience
now", he said on ONUCI FM.

Alassane Ouattara (RDR
President) in the Worodougou region yesterday: "The elections will take place in
a few months"

Le Nouveau Réveil
 - The president of
the Rally of the Republicans (RDR) has started his visit in the region of
Worodougou since Wednesday. He was greeted by a cheering crowd at Bonoufla where
he invited the population to join the rally he is holding on Friday in Vavoua.
"Thank you for your warm welcome! I stopped here to tell you that we are
counting on you. We will have elections in a few months and we are counting on
the population of Bonoufla. I would like to invite you this Friday to Vavoua for
the big meeting during which I will propose solutions for the development of the
Department of Vavoua and Bonoufla". These were the first words of the candidate
of the RDR for next presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire on his way to the
Worodougou region. (...)

Traffic Regulations: The
Forces Nouvelles take 70% of the money collected

Fraternité Matin
 - The Centre of
the Forces Nouvelles takes the lion share of the money collected from traffic
regulations. During a press conference held on Tuesday, July 20 in Abidjan, by
the Deputy Director of Infrastructure and Transport Facilitation, Jonas Lago, he
said that 70% of the money paid for the badge of the Ivorian Office of Chargers
(CIO) goes to the Forces Nouvelles (FN). The sticker costs 100,000 FCFA, the
Force Nouvelles' share is 70,000 FCFA. However, he quickly said that
negotiations were underway to reduce this amount. "We expect that the Force
Nouvelles will give a strong signal," he added. (...)

Case of the "theft of
administrative documents" - The verdict in the trial of three journalists has
been delayed on Monday, July 26

Notre Voie
 – "For some personal reasons,
we are obliged to postpone the deliberations to Monday, 26 July". This is the
brief and unexpected statement the Judge Brahaman Koné made yesterday around
14:00, to delay the case of the three journalists of Le Nouveau Courier
accused of stealing administrative documents. The families of the journalists,
their friends and their colleagues who came to support them left the tribunal of
Plateau-Abidjan in anger. (...) The list of prisoners could be much longer. It
could be possible that a new victim among journalists completed the list of
prisoners of this devastating case of the coffee-cocoa. Indeed, while we were
still asking ourselves about the fate of Theophile Kouamouo and his friends, we
learned that the Crime police have arrested Pohé Patrice, editor of the now
defunct Libération and former President of the Association of the
Directors of Publication of Côte d'Ivoire. He is suspected of being the real
thief of the famous documents. Patrice Pohé is the media adviser of the state
prosecutor Raymond Tchimou, who is conducting the judicial inquiry into the
coffee-cocoa sector, at the request of President Laurent Gbagbo. Mr. Pohé was
the one who accused the Director of the Publication of Le Quotidien,
Allan Alliali, of removing the document with the complicity of the prosecutor's
secretary before passing it to his friends at Le Nouveau Courier. (...)