President of the Republic's investiture – UNOCI, Licorne and FRCI prepare
security measures

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan –
The impartial forces in collaboration with the FRCI are increasing working
sessions on the security aspect of the President's investiture ceremony.
Yesterday General Gnakoudé Béréna took part in the meeting of the Generals and
the Commanders of the impartial and national forces. "The meeting was about
reviewing together the different security aspects of this event because the
impartial and Ivorian forces will work together to ensure security", said the
military Chief of Staff of the ex-Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN),
General Soumaila Bakayoko. "The Impartial Forces will take an active part in the
security measures", he added. UNOCI's Police Chief, Jean-Marie Bourry and the
Force Licorne Commander, General Jean-Pierre Palasset, participated in the
meeting with Generals Philippe Mangou and Michel Gueu as well as the Chief of
the national police, Brindou Mbia and the deputy Superior Commander of the
national gendarmerie, General Afro Raphael.

 

UNOCI wants to exhume corpses of persons killed in Yopougon

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan –
The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire intends to exhume the corpses of
the persons killed in Yopougon in order to know their identity. UNOCI is waiting
for the authorization of the families of the victims before doing it.

 

Conditions of detention of Simone and Laurent Gbagbo – Hamadoun Touré: "UNOCI
cannot accept bad treatment"

Soir Info – "UNOCI
cannot accept or tolerate violation of human rights by anyone", said Hamadoun
Touré, the Spokesperson for the UN mission on 10 May 2011, speaking about the
conditions of detention of the former head of state and his wife. (...) According
to some information Simone Gbagbo who is under house arrest in Odienné, in the
north of Côte d'Ivoire was suffering bad treatment. (...) He explained that UNOCI
participates in the safety of these personalities at a second level in respect
of principle of sovereignty. (...)

 

Truth and justice: Prosecutor Ange Kessy has not lost any time

Le
Mandat – Back from
France, the Government's Commissioner, Colonel Ange Kessy, has resumed duty. In
this regard, after having been instructed to arrest certain officers serving in
the Defence Forces owing to their deeds during the post-electoral crisis, he
will meet with the four police officers this morning.
(...)

 

Supreme Court / People are complaining – What Tia Koné is accused of.

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan –
The President of the Supreme Court is still at his post. Undoubtedly after the
total formation of the government and even after the legislative elections,
there will be changes in the judicial system with the creation of the final
court of appeal and the account court as envisaged by the Constitution on the
same basis as the Constitutional Council. The creation of these institutions
will put an end to the current form of the Supreme Court. If maintaining Tia
Koné is in accordance with President Ouattara's desire for reconciliation and
his sense of the State, it however worries many economic operators who had
sometimes been victims of arbitrary and abusive decisions. (...) "People are only
accusing Yao N'Dré, but he is not alone.
All this should stop", say
the economic operators. (...)

 

The
freezing of the accounts of the former regime's leaders– the former regime
prosecuted for economic crimes

Le
Patriote – (...) It is
no secret, the former regime distinguished itself by the economic scandals and
crimes in such a way that many Ivorians thought that embezzling public funds was
banal or normal. (...) Among the scandals we can note the coffee and cocoa scandal
which is one of the biggest scandals of the former regime. There is the purchase
of a factory in Fulton, USA. This factory, impossible to find in the USA cost up
to 100 billion Fcfa. Clearly speaking some people in the FPI pinched this money
from the national treasury. (...) According to the IMF and World Bank joint
mission in September 2005, out of 125 billion paid by the farmers from 2002 to
2004 only some 40 billion has really been used for the coffee and cocoa sector.
(...)

 

To
pay tribute to the victims of the post-electoral crisis, the President decrees
three days of mourning

Le
Mandat –

The President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire His Excellency
Alassane Ouattara invites the entire national community to observe the 12, 13
and 14 May over the entire territory of Côte d'Ivoire as the national mourning
days in memory of all victims of the post electoral crisis. To this end, it is
recommended that the Ivorian flags on buildings or in public places must be
flown at half mast. By this act, the head of state wants to show his compassion
to the victims and their relatives and his support during this difficult time.

 

The
mercenaries and militiamen of Gbagbo killed 120 civilians while fleeing.

Le
Patriote – Some 120
civilians were killed on May 5 and 6 during the attacks of the militiamen loyal
to the ousted President Laurent Gbagbo and Liberian mercenaries fleeing from
Abidjan, the Department of Defense said on Monday. "The last fighters of the
former president, Laurent Gbagbo, were mercenaries from Liberia. After being
routed from Yopougon on May3 and 4, 2011, they headed to their home areas," the
ministry said in a statement. Yopougon, a huge district in the west of Abidjan
became the last bastion of the pro-Gbagbo after his arrest on April 11. Heading
towards Liberian border, the gunmen killed a hundred and twenty civilians,
including women and children, in the cities of Irobo, Grand Lahou, Fresco and
Sassandra region

 

President Ouattara visits Wade and Compaoré

Le
Patriote -
For
his first official visit after his swearing in, the new President of the
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, HE Mr. Ouattara has chosen to go to two of his
counterparts who honor of the most beautiful way, for their support and their
friendship. It is President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and Blaise Compaoré of
Burkina Faso. On Thursday, May 12, the Ivorian head of state will travel to
Dakar to see Abdoulaye Wade and Monday, on May 16, he will go to Ouagadougou.

 

Dimbokro – more than 490 Kalashnikovs discovered

Le
Patriote – Like
other towns in Cote d'Ivoire, the capital city of Comoé N'zi did not escape the
madness of the refondateurs (...) The discovery of weapons was made
​​when the former prefect of the region Mr. Wodjé preparing to join his
residence from which he was excluded by Gbagbo's militia. For now, more than 490
Russian made Kalashnikov were discovered.

 

The
CNRD asks for the freeing of Gbagbo and the militants of LMP

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan –

Côte d'Ivoire, our homeland, is going through the most painful
moments in its history, moments characterized by violence of any kind on people
and their property. In my capacity as President of CNRD, I bow down to the
memory of all those who died for Africa and Cote d'Ivoire in the fight for human
rights and peoples. I express my sympathy to the injured. Taking note of the new
situation, recognizing Mr. Alassane Ouattara, as President of the Republic of
Côte d'Ivoire, I ask to all the 49 organizations and all those of the
Presidential Majority (Lmp), to accept unequivocally the new political
dispensation. I also ask them to please be overcome, with courage, their pain,
their pain and suffering resulting from abuse suffered in recent weeks. I also
ask them to prepare psychologically and morally, to go to a consultation
desirable, and to build peace with all the daughters and all the son of Côte
d'Ivoire. To achieve this, it would be necessary to disarm the hearts and minds,
using, with passing in the virtue of mutual forgiveness. Directed to the
President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, I ask, on the
behalf of the CRND the release of Mr. and Mrs. Gbagbo and their collaborators
AND stop the manhunt, the violence and looting of private homes, villages and
camps to create a climate of security conducive to the return of every Ivorian
to his residence and begin a national dialogue.