The Chief of Staff of the
Niger Armed Forces in Côte d'Ivoire

L'Intelligent d'Abidjan  –
The Chief of
Staff of Niger Army, General Salou Souleymane, is in Côte d'Ivoire for a
three-day visit. He was received by Abou Moussa, UNOCI's number two, yesterday.
Before leaving Côte d'Ivoire on 22 July, General Salou will visit Bouaké and
Korhogo.

Bondoukou/Culture of peace and social cohesion/ Population sensitised and
trained

Le Mandat  –

UNOCI's Public Information Office and the Human Rights Division
in Bondoukou, on 16 July 2010, organised a joint sensitisation mission on human
rights and creating a peaceful electoral environment in Siakakro, in the
sub-district of  Akoboissué, 300 km east of Abidjan. The sensitisation and
information campaign, known as UNOCI Tour, was aimed at informing the
population, composed of Sénoufo, Lobi, Malinké, Burkinabé, Malians, Togolese,
Ghanaians and Béninois,  of their rights and duties and help them to understand
the importance of social cohesion.
(...)

Zakaria Fellah,
international relations expert: "The UN's mistake was to deploy 10,000 soldiers
in Côte
d'Ivoire

Le Quotidien 

Le Quotidien:
What is your assessment of the UN's action in the Ivorian crisis?

Zakaria Fellah:
(...) I worked with MINUCI, the mission which preceded UNOCI. I think an
assessment of UNOCI's role in the Ivorian crisis is that it has had very little
impact. I do not think that the Ivorian crisis will be resolved by any
contribution made by any UNOCI personnel. Everyone, even in New York, has
noticed that it was a mistake to deploy 10,000 individual in Côte d'Ivoire. (...)
I think the United Nation's response to the Ivorian crisis has been
disproportionate. If you ask officials at the United Nations here or in New
York, they will tell you that there is not much to do in Côte d'Ivoire, apart
from reading newspapers, writing reports, organise meetings and and finally...to
take advantage of the huge salaries and the sun in  Bassam or Assainie !

(...)

The New provisional voter
list: bad start of the appeals yesterday

L'Inter
 –The Independent Electoral
Commission (IEC) has imposed ten days to complete the appeals process. After the
very bad start of the process on Tuesday, July 20, it is not certain that this
period of time will be respected. While Ivorians were expecting, throughout of
Côte d'Ivoire, an actual start of the appeals, a statement released on July 19,
2010 by the IEC claimed that the appeals did not concern the whole nation but a
portion of the districts of Abidjan. "The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
brings to the attention of the national and international community that the
appeals will actually start this Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in some parts of the
districts of Abidjan. For the other part of the country the operations it will
start gradually. A statement will be published in this regard," said the IEC.
(...) How can we explain the fact that the institution in charge of the
organization of the elections, which had promised that all arrangements had been
made to start the appeals throughout of the country on July 20, 2010, released a
statement three days later to disown itself and reduce the number of places
concerned by the start of these pre-election operations in the districts of
Abidjan? Does the IEC really want to hold these elections?

The Electoral Process: The
Papal Nuncio wants the final electoral list

Fraternité Matin
 - The Papal
Nuncio, the Archbishop Ambrose Madtha met with President Laurent Gbagbo
yesterday at his residence in Cocody. He congratulated President Laurent Gbagbo
on the dialogue he recently initiated with Bédié and Ouattara. He asked him to
continue because according to him it was a good sign. The representative of the
Holy Father also encouraged the Head of State to publish the final electoral
list so elections can be held as soon as possible. (...)

Desire Tagro's Case: The
plenary fails, there will be no parliamentary inquiry

Notre Voie
 – There will be no
parliamentary inquiry on Desire Assegnini Tagro's case. The parliament session,
convened yesterday to discuss the resolution to create a parliamentary committee
to investigate the case, did not take place. The attempt of RHDP's members of
parliament to install this committee did not prosper because of the opposition
of the FPI's members of parliament. For them since the proposed resolution which
has to create the parliamentary inquiry committee was rejected on July 7 in
commission, it could not be discussed in plenary. To support their claim, the
FPI brought cited article 70 of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly
that stipulated that a text rejected in commission cannot be discussed in
plenary.