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Cote d'Ivoire's Traditional Hunters - Protector or Assailant?

As Côte d'Ivoire looks to move past the unprecedented violence that followed presidential elections, attention has focused on the traditional hunters known as dozos, with human rights researchers and some Ivoirians accusing them of carrying out atrocities in the west.
Nancy Palus/IRIN

Passers-by on a motorcycle wave to dozos posted along the road.

  • Cote d'Ivoire:   Dozo As Protector, Dozo As Assailant

    UNIRIN, 1 August 2011

    On the 76km stretch of road between Man and Duékoué in western Côte d'Ivoire are several makeshift stalls where men in traditional hand-woven clothes, carrying… Read more »

  • Cote d'Ivoire:   Dozos - 'Savvy Political Actors'

    UNIRIN, 1 August 2011

    As Côte d'Ivoire looks to move past the unprecedented violence that followed presidential elections, attention has focused on the traditional hunters known as dozos, with… Read more »

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