UN peacekeeping
operations: Alain Le Roy is leaving

L'Inter  –
The Frenchman Alain Le Roy will leave his post as the head of the United Nations
Department of the Peacekeeping Operations when his mandate expires in August.
The announcement was released according to the Reuters agency on Monday 27 June
2011 by Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for the United Nations. According to him, the
Secretary-General of the organization, the South Korean Ban Ki-Moon, expressed
his heartfelt regret regarding the decision by Alain Le Roy "and he said he
understands the family reasons" cited by Alain le Roy who said he wants to go
back to France "to give more time to his family".
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Post-election
crimes: the ICC asks for UNOCI's support

Le Jour  –
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J.
Choi, on Tuesday afternoon received the deputy Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou
Bensouda who came to explain the sense reason for her mission and discuss the
terms of her working visit in the country. (...) "During our exchanges with the
Special Representative, we asked for UNOCI's logistical support because we
consider that the delegation should be able to move freely and safely throughout
the country", the deputy Prosecutor said.
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Man/Social
cohesion and reconciliation: civil society and the media in the Montagnes
region, ready to promote social cohesion and reconciliation 

Le Mandat  –
The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on 27 and 28 June 2011
organized a seminar on "the commitment of opinion leaders and media for the
reinforcement of social cohesion and reconciliation". At the opening ceremony,
the chief of UNOCI's delegation, Ladji Sidibé, called on the participants to
promote the values of tolerance, reconciliation, love, understanding and
peaceful co-existence. (...) The Secretary-General of the Prefecture of Man,
Patrice Kokora, the Representative of the regional Prefect, thanked UNOCI for
its role in the resolution of the Ivorian crisis. "We mark our infinite
gratitude to the international community for its actions for Ivorian people. You
leaders have a particular and important role to help to reach a definitive and
happy resolution of the Ivorian crisis", he said.
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ICC's
investigation on pro-Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara / President Ouattara agreed
yesterday

Le Nouveau
Réveil  –
Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, the deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
has been received by the President of the Republic, His Excellency Alassane
Ouattara at the Presidential palace in Plateau. (...) After the meeting she said
she came to inform President Ouattara of her mission. "We told him we got the
permission from the preliminary chamber of the Criminal Court to start
investigation in Côte d'Ivoire", Mrs. Fatou Bensouda said. She then added that
"one of the most important issues we addressed is highlighting the crimes
committed by both camps". According to President Ouattara, she added, "no one
will be protected. All the authors of crimes will be prosecuted" in accordance
with the law.
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Cote d'Ivoire
and the ICC sign an agreement of judicial cooperation

AIP –
Côte d'Ivoire, through the Ivorian Minister of Justice, M. Jeannot Ahoussou
Kouadio on Tuesday signed a judicial cooperation agreement with the
International Criminal Court (ICC) represented by the deputy Prosecutor, Fatou
Bensouda. According to the Minister of Justice, with this agreement, "Côte
d'Ivoire is allowing the office of the Prosecutor (of the ICC) to come and
investigate here on anybody" whether they are collaborators of Alassane Ouattara
or Laurent Gbagbo or even Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo themselves.

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Chased by the
FRCI, militia men and mercenaries become farm workers

Le Jour  –
Another consequence of the post-electoral crisis in Aboisso is the arrival of
many IDPs (...). According to the Director of the Social Centre, Bakayoko Moussa,
many of them returned two months later. (...) Those who are still hesitating are
people from the west of Côte d'Ivoire and young militia men and mercenaries (...).
But the militia men and the mercenaries refuse to return to the economic
capital. Some of them have decided to go to Ghana whereas others are working.

"I am working for someone. I manage a phone shop. I have money
everyday.
It is better than stealing » says Guy le Saoudien. Another twenty
young people are working in rubber plantations. (...)