Duekoue: Peaceful
elections       

L'Expression  –
The United Nations
Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), yesterday, organized a sensitization and
information day in Pona. The village situated 549 km northwest of Abidjan hosted
the sensitization caravan for the promotion of a peaceful electoral environment
and social cohesion, known as UNOCI-TOUR. During the meeting attended by the
representatives of UNOCI's Public Information, Electoral Assistance, Human
Rights and Child Protection sections, the population wanted especially to know
the date for the elections and UNOCI's role in their organization. Alpha Kabiné
Dioubaté of the Electoral Assistance Division explained that UNOCI was not
responsible for fixing the date of elections. Its role is to support the
electoral process and certify it. Outlining the importance of promoting social
cohesion in electoral period, he urged the inhabitants of Pona to reinforce,
around them, "values related to social cohesion, and this will allow the holding
of safe elections".

Electoral
process: The provisional electoral list handed over to Bakayoko yesterday.

Le Patriote  –
A simple but very
important ceremony for the rest of the electoral process. Yesterday at the
institution's headquarters, in the presence of many national and international
journalists, the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Mr. Youssouf
Bakayoko, received the provisional electoral list from the Prime Minister's
Deputy Private Secretary, Mr. Paul Koffi Koffi. He also met with representatives
of Sagem and INS. The new provisional electoral list is composed of 5,775,000
voters. This number is superior to the previous list known as the white list. In
fact, the list involves 5,300,000 voters of the former white list and the
petitioners who were on the grey list and whose status were clarified after
their processing. We can say that it is about 5,700,000 voters or slightly more.
(...) Addressing the audience, the Chairman of the Independent Electoral
Commission thanked the two technical operators who did the work that resulted in
the production of the provisional electoral list. He, then, announced that "some
technical meetings especially at the central commission" will be held in the
hours to come. At the end of those meetings, he continued, "we are going to
enter the phase of operations directly". Before bringing the session to a close,
he told the press that he would give more details very soon. It should be noted
that the electronic publication announced for Tuesday 13 July is postponed to
Thursday 15 July 2010 to allow time to make technical adjustments on the
internet.

Ivorian
Crisis/Guillaume Soro: « The presidential election must be held at the latest in
October »

 L'Inter
/
Source : Notre Afrik

Notre Afrik:
The Ivorian political actors have at last agreed on the verification of voters
on the provisional electoral list.
Is this a relief for
your?

Guillaume Soro:
Each time an agreement or an understanding is reached between
political actors, one can only welcome it. The objective is to ensure that each
actor acquires the political will necessary to end the crisis and hold
elections. 

Notre Afrik:
So when will the definitive voters list be published ?

Guillaume Soro:
If we take into account
the work that has to be done on the verification and the period for appeals
which should be 21 days, we can reasonably hope that the definitive lis twill be
published at the latest in two months.

Notre Afrik:
Within what deadline do you think elections can be held?

Guillaume Soro:
If everything goes well, once the definitive list is published, we can say that
organising elections will only take a matter of weeks.  

Notre Afrik:
Does October seem a realistic deadline to you?

Guillaume Soro:
With regard to what I have just said, yes! This election should be held at the
latest in October.
(...)

Bombing of
French camp in Bouaké: How France ended operation «Dignity» * The origins of the
10n dead presented to the world * The revelations of secret French documents

L'Inter -
In the afternoon of
Saturday 6 November 2004, the French military force "Licorne'', without warning,
destroyed practically all the aircraft of Côte d'Ivoire's Air Force. A country,
where, with its 3,500 men, the French force, together with 6000 blue helmets of
the United Nations Operation (UNOCI), had come to maintain peace. The reasons
given was that the Ivorian Defence and Security (FDSCI), which had started a
three-day offensive, known as "opération dignité'', to put an end to more than
25 months of a division of the country by the rebels, had bombed the French camp
in Bouaké; injuring 38 and killing ten including nine soldiers and one American
civilian. Six years after, a secret document, published last March, of which a
copy was sent to us, returns to this issue which continues to deliver secrets.
(...) In the report dated 23 November 2004, which was produced by a General of the
Air Force Division Michel Masson, head of French military information at the
time of the event, it is claimed that the soldiers who were supposedly killed in
the raid by the Ivorian Air Force were transported a few hours earlier from the
Licorne base in Vavoua (Centre-West) to the Descartes base in Bouaké. Better
still, these nine soldiers whose deaths are said to be linked to FANCI's air
operation, were never brought before the medical-legal services of the health
services of the French Army which had made a medical lawyer available to the
Force Licorne. In truth, the nine soldiers killed and branded were attacked by
out-of-control rebels in the Vavoua area and then transported to Bouaké. This is
one of the main reasons which instigated the blackout ordered by ex-president
Jacques Chirac and his close collaborators.
(...)