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2006

Ivorian ruling party warns against weakening Gbagbo
October 13, 2006 - (Reuters) Ivory Coast's ruling party warned on Friday the war-divided country would descend into chaos if foreign mediators tried to strip President Laurent Gbagbo of any of his powers at a summit next week. African leaders are due to meet in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday to discuss how Ivory Coast should be governed after a 12-month extension to Gbagbo's mandate expires at the end of October.

2005

Ivory Coast: the Kindest Cut of All -- Severing a Harmful Tradition
November 29, 2005 - (Inter Press Service) Thirty practitioners of female circumcision in the Ivorian financial capital, Abidjan, have publicly laid aside their blades, knives and scissors. This is the result of an ongoing campaign in the West African country to eradicate the practice, estimated by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to affect 40 percent of women living there.

War sends floods of migrants back home to bleak future
November 25, 2005 - (IRIN) Mariam’s twisted fingers will forever remain a brutal reminder of her violent escape three years ago to Burkina Faso from Cote d’Ivoire, her home for 25 years until war broke out there in 2002. Millions of people have left impoverished Burkina Faso in past decades in search of work on the thriving cocoa and coffee plantations of Cote d’Ivoire, the region’s economic powerhouse, and at least four million people originally from Burkina Faso and Mali have settled there.

Killings, torture and rape go unpunished on both sides of the front line
October 12, 2005 (IRIN) - More human rights violations including summary executions, politically motivated arrests, torture and rape are taking place across war-torn Cote d'Ivoire according to a UN report released on Thursday. The report came as the UN Security Council opened a special meeting on Cote d'Ivoire in New York.

University campus polarised by political violence
Jul 29, 2005 - (IRIN) At the main university in Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, many scholars are more worried about self-defence than self-improvement on a campus dominated by a pro-government student union that uses rape and torture to maintain control.

French troops in Ivorian sex row
May 20, 2005 - (BBC) Four French peacekeepers are being investigated over accusations of sexual abuse against a girl in Ivory Coast.

2004

Private AIDS clinic brings hope to Abidjan slum
September 23, 2004 - (IRIN) For Swiss-born Lotti Latrous, founder of a private AIDS clinic in the slums of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire’s economic hub, the cup is never half empty, but always half full.

UN EXPERT ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION TO VISIT CÔTE D’IVOIRE
January 23, 2004 – (UN News) A United Nations human rights expert, concerned about the role of the media in the sporadic conflicts in Côte d’Ivoire, will visit the West African country next week at the Government’s invitation.

COTE D' IVOIRE: LIBERIAN WOMAN COMMANDS MERCENARIES IN KORHOGO
January 2, 2004 – (IRIN) Awa Michel, a short dark robust woman in her mid 30's, busies herself cooking rice and fish soup over two coal pots outside her house in Cote d'Ivoire's northern city of Korhogo. She is sitting on a rough wooden bench wearing a simple cloth wrapped over her breasts, not a military uniform, and her AK-47 assault rifle is nowhere in sight.