Monday, March 21, 2011

Ivory Coast is stained with blood by religious disputes

Abidjan .- Members of the Young Patriots group and the Students Federation (FESCI), supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, killed a second magnet in Abidjan, Efe reported the president of the Higher Council of Imams of Ivory Coast (Cosima), Boikary Fofana, and relatives of the victim. According to sources, members of FESCI, supported by uniformed police broke into the residence of the imam of the mosque in the Williamsville district, Tijana Cisse, and in the presence of her mother, demanded that they hand over money, after which taken to an unknown location.

His body was discovered yesterday in the same neighborhood where he was kidnapped. Cisse's murder adds to the imam of the mosque in Port-Bouet 2, Issyk Sacko, who was attacked along with his son also by supporters of Gbagbo, who was rejected by the international community as president of Côte d'Ivoire after the controversial elections last November.

After the death of the two magnets, Cosima asked its members "patience, endurance and order not to fall into the trap of those who want to transform the political conflict into a religious confrontation," and reported that about 12 mosques have been attacked from middle of last December.

On the other hand, supporters of Gbagbo reacted today to the calls of the last days of the group leader Young Patriots, Charles Blé Goudé, which has called on the youths to join the armed struggle to "liberate Ivory Coast." Many Gbagbo supporters came in the early hours today at the gates of Navy General Headquarters of the Ivory Coast, the Plateau, the administrative district of Abidjan, to enlist.

Last Saturday, during a meeting in Yopougon, a stronghold of supporters of Gbagbo, Blé Goudé called for "all who are willing to die for their country and not wanting to endure the humiliation of going on Monday morning join the army to liberate Ivory Coast bandits. " The followers of Alassane Ouattara, recognized by the international community as a winner of the elections in Côte d'Ivoire more than three months, reacted to the call of Blé Goudé saying it is "a sign that Gbagbo is desperate." "This derives from his anguish, that proves that the army (in the hands of Gbagbo) is about to fall and that many soldiers are refusing to commit acts of barbarism, and so are forced to resort to helpless young and idlers "said spokeswoman Ouattara today, Judge Anne-Désirée Oulotto.

Ouattara's followers accused of passivity to the United Nations Mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and in the daily Le Patriote states that "day after day, the UN is the grim account of the deaths that occur, but they do anything to make the violence ends. " "The big democratic powers, France, USA and the UK, you see the crisis in Ivory Coast as a more", the paper added.

According to residents of Abobo, a district of Abidjan where the followers of Ouattara concentrated, last night listening to gunfire continued in the streets, and denounce the mass exodus of entire families and the dramatic increase in the price of transport. The displaced are women and children, according to Unicef At least 60% of the 300,000 IDPs who are in Ivory Coast and much of the 90,000 refugees who have fled to neighboring Liberia in the post-election crisis in Ivory Coast are women and children, according to UNICEF figures, reports Europa Press.

Between the needs of the population, UNICEF has pointed out the importance of ensuring the protection of children against violence, continued access to health services and school attendance while continuing political instability. This NGO has already vaccinated against measles and other diseases more than 1.7 million children between six months and five years old, plus he has analyzed thousands of children from malnutrition delivered to some 20,000 children school supplies.

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