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Human Rights Watch November 19, 2012 This 73-page report details the brutal crackdown that followed a series of violent attacks on military installations around the country in August. The attacks were allegedly committed by militants loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo. The resulting crackdown recalled the grave crimes committed during the 2010-2011 post-election crisis, in [...]

IRIN, 22 October 2012 Since a spate of attacks on Côte d’Ivoire’s army and police bases in August, several civilians have been rounded up, beaten and detained for ransom, say rights groups and ex-detainees who accuse the Côte d’Ivoire Republican Forces (FRCI – also part of the army) of violation and mistreatment. In recent months, [...]

BBC News World News – Africa 6th August 2012 At least six soldiers have been killed in an attack by gunmen on an army base in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan.  One assailant was also killed in the gun battle which lasted several hours in the Riviera district of Abidjan.  This follows the shooting of [...]

IRIN UN News Network 31st July 2012 DUEKOUE, 31 July 2012 (IRIN) – Hundreds of armed youths stormed Côte d’Ivoire’s last camp for the displaced outside Duékoué city in the turbulent western region on 20 July. They killed at least six civilians, torched the camp and drove off the 5,000 people staying there in what has been [...]

Hard Road to Reconciliation IRIN, UN News Service 20 July 2012 Arbitrary arrests, kidnappings and torture by armed groups and government forces since the end of Côte d’Ivoire’s bloody 2010-2011 post-election unrest are stifling national reconciliation and causing fear and mistrust among civilians. A local human rights group estimates that around 200 supporters of ousted [...]

IRIN United Nations News Network 19th July 2012 “There is no way I could go back”   ZWEDRU, 19 July 2012 (IRIN) – Like most of his fellow refugees in Grand Gedeh county in the far east of Liberia, “Da Tatouwa” is from the Guéré ethnic group, and fear of an “anti-Guéré genocide” made him [...]

Côte d’Ivoire : Stuck between refuge and risk Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 27 June 2012 Available at UNHCR RefWorld Intermittent violence and widespread insecurity have left thousands of villagers in western Côte d’Ivoire stuck between fleeing their villages for the greater safety of refuge with host families in bigger towns, and the risk [...]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Interim Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Côte d’Ivoire 15 June 2012, available at UNHCR RefWorld Introduction These interim Guidelines are issued in the context of an evolving security and human rights situation in Côte d’Ivoire, following the inauguration of Alassane Ouattara as President on [...]

Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) Date: 13/06/2012 Available at IRIN, UN News Service ABIDJAN, 13 June 2012 (IRIN) – Up to a dozen people jostle for space in small houses meant for families of four, but at least they have found refuge in Duékoué, a town near the Liberian border. A new militia attack in [...]

Human Rights Watch March 5, 2012 The Ivorian government should urgently address the rising violent crime in and around the central town of Bouaké, the country’s second largest city, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should take urgent steps to disarm the former combatants widely believed to be implicated in the attacks and adequately [...]