Reports

MILITARY / POLITICAL SITUATION Since the signing of the Linas-Marcoussis Accord in Paris, a steady stream of protests and riots have rocked Abidjan, the most serious of which was the storming of the runway at Abidjan's airport by over one-thousand…

Demonstrators have stayed off the streets since a presidential appeal for calm on Friday. By Danna Harman, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST - Curfew here starts at 10 p.m., but last Friday, the streets were deserted…

(United Nations: 7 February 2003) - Carolyn McAskie, the Secretary-General's Humanitarian Envoy for the Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, has just completed visits to Ghana, Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Guinea, where she got a first-hand look at the effects the crisis…

PRESS RELEASE Berne, 4 February 2003 - With its campaign for fighting poverty, its humanitarian aid programmes and its commitment to peace and the rule of law, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC makes a contribution towards improving…

Saclepea, Liberia (PANA) - UN and relief organisations have expressed concern over the fate of more than 4,000 Burkinabes who fled the rebel war in Côte d'Ivoire to Liberia. The Burkinabes have reportedly been rejected by Guinea Conakry to transit…

Mme Carolyn McAskie, Envoyée Humanitaire du Secrétaire Général de l'ONU pour la crise en Côte d'Ivoire, effectue une visite de travail en Guinée du 3 au 6 février 2003. S'inscrivant dans le cadre d'une tournée de sensibilisation sur la complexité…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Background In September 2002, opposition forces launched an uprising in Abidjan - marking the beginning of nearly four months of…

OUAGADOUOGOU, 29 January (IRIN) - The UN Under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict has expressed fears that, like in the Liberian and the Sierra Leonean civil wars, children from countries neighbouring Cote…

ABIDJAN, 29 janvier (IRIN) - Le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance, UNICEF, a lancé un appel pour recueillir 5,7 millions de dollars pour la santé, la nutrition et l'éducation en vue de couvrir les besoins, pour les deux…

Over 1,000,000 displaced in Côte d'Ivoire, 80% of whom are women and children Over 150,000 people have already crossed into neighboring countries, straining already weak social service systems US$ 5.7 million needed to cover emergency health, nutrition and…