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Cote d'Ivoire: Peacebuilding - Why It's Hard to Reintegrate Combatants and Achieve Justice
The Conversation Africa, 6 May 2021
A decade ago the Ivoirian government, with the help of the United Nations, started programmes to build peace after nine years of war. The conflict ended after President Alassane… Read more »
Justice and Reintegration in Cote d'Ivoire - What Went Wrong?
A decade ago the Ivoirian government, with the help of the United Nations, started programmes to build peace after nine years of war. The conflict ended after President Alassane Ouattara was brought to power with the help of Forces Nouvelles rebels, French and UN troops. Côte d'Ivoire has not returned to war, but elections in 2018 and 2020 were marred by violence. Cote d'Ivoire implemented the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration and the transitional justice types of programmes. However, many Ivoirians claim much remains to be done to unite the country, writes Jessica Moody for The Conversation
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Liberia: Averting Regional Rebel Resurgence - A Must for Liberia, Ivory Coast
FrontPageAfrica, 3 May 2021
LIBERIA AND IVORY COAST HAVE both had bouts of civil unrests, civil war and chaos. Read more »
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FrontPageAfrica, 26 April 2021
Liberia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dee Maxwell Kemayah has termed as an attempt to cause chaos and undermine democratic gains subsisting between countries within the Mano River… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Liberian Government Condemns Attack On Côte d'Ivoire Military Base
RFI, 24 April 2021
The Liberian government has strongly condemned acts that disrupt regional stability after being informed that at least three Liberian nationals had been shot and killed in… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Assailants Believed to Be Liberians Killed in a Military Base Attack in the Ivory Coast
FrontPageAfrica, 23 April 2021
Three men believed to be Liberians have been shot and killed in the capital city of Ivory Coast, Abidjan, after they reportedly attacked a military base. Read more »
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Liberia: Refugee Commission, Partners Pre-Registered Over 29 Thousand Newly Arrived Ivorian Refugees
LINA, 1 April 2021
The Director General of the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) Festus Logan, has disclosed that the LRRRC along with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Three Sentenced to Life for 2004 Air Strike On French Troops
RFI, 16 April 2021
A French court has sentenced a Belarusian mercenary and two Ivorian pilots to life in prison for their suspected involvement in an air strike on a French military camp in Ivory… Read more »
InFocus
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A report from Amnesty International says hundreds of people in Côte d'Ivoire are languishing in dire conditions in prison after being arrested during violence and ... Read more »
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The UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, has called for a peaceful solution to the escalating violence in the wake of presidential elections held on 31 October. The election ... Read more »
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Rights group, Human Rights Watch has called on authorities in the country to urgently investigate the deaths of more than 50 people in the political and intercommunal violence that ... Read more »
