Launch of fourth edition of UNOCI days in Zouan-Hounien
L'Inter - "The fourth edition of UNOCI days started on Wednesday in Zouan-Hounien, 700 km west of Abidjan, by free medical consultations organized by the mission's peacekeepers. Over 500 persons received cares and consultations provided by the peace keepers who had come from the Bangladeshi, Béninois and Moroccan battalions. The entire day, men, women and children came in the town hall to receive cares and medicines."

Media and civil society discuss how to strengthen social cohesion in Bondoukou
L'Inter - "The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on Wednesday 3rd March 2010 launched, launched a seminar on "The role of the local media and the civil society in strengthening social cohesion in 2010" in Bondoukou, 240 km northeast of Abidjan. Bondoukou is the sixth leg of this series of discussion by UNOCI, after having been in Bouna, Divo, Guiglo, San Pedro and Man.

The Minister of Defence, Amani N'Guessan Michel, met the Forces Nouvelles in Bouaké: "We agree on disarmament"
Fraternité Matin - "The Minister of Defense, Amani N'Guessan Michel, yesterday met with the Forces Armées des Forces Nouvelles (FAFN), in their headquarters in Bouaké. After the working session, which lasted three hours, the Minister of Defence told the press that he had come to meet and congratulate the FAFN who took a clear position by defending the constitutional law during the street demonstrations organized last week by the Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) following the dissolution of the Independent Electoral Commission and the government by the head of state on last 12 February. "Those who doubted the FAFN's goodwill have just noticed by this act that they have carried out, namely the defence of the constitutional law, they have shown that they want to resolve the crisis and carry out disarmament," said Michel Amani N'Guessan. "We especially agreed on the fact that everything should be done to organise disarmament, since hearts are already disarmed and now we have to disarm arms", he said. (...) On the issue of the security provision for the election, Minister Amani said that in common agreement with his interlocutors, they decided to establish mixed brigades for the Security Provision for Election (CMSE). These mixed brigades will provide support to the mixed gendarmerie brigades as part of the Integrated Command Centre (ICC). (...)"

The 2nd team of the Prime Minister will be complete today at 11.00 Am. The 11 ministers from RHDP and PIT will join the government
Fraternité Matin - "The second government of Guillaume Soro, after a multitude of riots will gather today for a council of Ministers. This is the information which is circulating in the close circles of the chief of government as well as the RHDP. According to our sources, the four parties which are grouped into the Rally of Houphouétists for Democracy and Peace yesterday afternoon just after the joint meeting of their different political offices presented the list of professionals who will represent them in the government.

Ange Kessi: Djedje Mady will be interrogated
Fraternité Matin – Ange Kessi, the commissioner for the government went yesterday to Gagnoa, to investigate and have the official version of the recent events that occurred during the RHDP's street demonstration. Upon his arrival he went successively to the prosecutor's office, to the morgue to see the bodies of victims, then the scene of the event and he met with the regional prefect to explain the reasons for his visit. "I am in Gagnoa because there men died and the forces of defense and security (Fds) have been accused." The objective of the investigation for which he was in Gagnoa, according to the military prosecutor, was to know the circumstances of the death of these demonstrators. "Indeed, we need to know how they died and who shot them since the first reports and conclusion from the hospital sources have established that they died by bullets "(...) Ange Kessi has promised to cross-examine all the witnesses who could bring out the truth on this matter. He revealed that Djedje Mady, the Chairman of the RHDP leadership, will be interrogated as a witness. The commissioner for the government has 15 days from the end of the autopsies to complete his investigation.

Independent Electoral Commission: Affi N'Guessan to Youssouf Bakayoko - "The Fpi is for the full reconstitution of the IEC"
Le Quotidien - "The President of the Independent Electoral Commission met with the president of FPI yesterday at his residence in Cocody. (...) Pascal Affi N'Guessan said he was honoured that the President of the IEC came to meet him, before adding that "it is too early to discuss in detail our concerns. However, we told him some of them, including the entire reconstitution of the IEC." For the head of the ruling party, the process of establishing the new structures of the IEC must be extended to the bottom. "We presented this concern to him as a point of interest. We also talked about the appeals process because in the past, the appeals have been a source of great difficulties on the grounds that have greatly hindered the work of the judges and the electoral officials. M. N'Guessan said."

The RHDP calls for the "immediate commencement of the electoral appeals"
Fraternité Matin - "(...) The RHDP wants the 21 days period for the administrative and judicial appeals on the electoral list to be respected. The RHDP demands that the appeals scrupulously respect the agreed procedure which was restated during the meeting of February 22, 2010 in Abidjan with the Facilitator. The RHDP requires the immediate opening of the administrative and judicial appeals on the electoral list. The RHDP calls again for the preservation of the results achieved with the consensual provisional electoral list of 5 300 000 voters that has to be completed with petitioners from the list of 1 033 000 enrolled. The RHDP requires the expeditious publication of the final voters list. The RHDP wants the date of the first round of the presidential election to be announced today to respect the period of late April - early May 2010 set during the Abidjan meeting on February 22, 2010.
To this end, the RHDP asked its activists and supporters to remain always
mobilized and vigilant to:
- monitor the implementation of the decisions adopted in Abidjan with the Facilitator.
- to defeat the will of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo to establish a dictatorship in our country. (...) The RHDP gives permission to its leaders to seize the (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights in order to bring perpetrators of the crimes committed during the recent events and the events of March 2004 before the International Court of Justice. The RHDP asks the UN to take impose sanctions against those who are clearly blocking the electoral process."