Laurent Gbagbo's demonstration against police officers who allegedly shot six women in Abidjan. In the Ivory Coast continue the fighting. Supporters of the elected president Alassane Ouattara took over on Monday the control of the city Toulépleu in the west of the country.
The situation runs the risk of civil war and a refugee disaster with serious consequences for the entire region, warned Westerwelle. He also invited the former President Laurent Gbagbo to resign forthwith.
After the presidential election in late November was in Ivory Coast erupted a fierce power struggle. The Election Commission had Ouattara declared the winner. Gbagbo, however, refuses to surrender. All attempts at mediation have been unsuccessful. The inherited from Ouattara's supporters Toulépleu city is the third largest in the country.
In the economic capital Abidjan keep soldiers who think the had been voted president Gbagbo the fidelity of the besieged UN peacekeepers protected hotel where Ouattara since the elections has his headquarters. According to the UN has received nearly 300 people have been killed in the clashes, tens of thousands fled to Liberia.
The mediation efforts of the African Union (AU) and ECOWAS Community of West African States have so far been in vain. Ecowas Gbagbo threatened with a military intervention as a last option of the neighboring countries should not be the conflict in Ivory Coast settled.
The situation runs the risk of civil war and a refugee disaster with serious consequences for the entire region, warned Westerwelle. He also invited the former President Laurent Gbagbo to resign forthwith.
After the presidential election in late November was in Ivory Coast erupted a fierce power struggle. The Election Commission had Ouattara declared the winner. Gbagbo, however, refuses to surrender. All attempts at mediation have been unsuccessful. The inherited from Ouattara's supporters Toulépleu city is the third largest in the country.
In the economic capital Abidjan keep soldiers who think the had been voted president Gbagbo the fidelity of the besieged UN peacekeepers protected hotel where Ouattara since the elections has his headquarters. According to the UN has received nearly 300 people have been killed in the clashes, tens of thousands fled to Liberia.
The mediation efforts of the African Union (AU) and ECOWAS Community of West African States have so far been in vain. Ecowas Gbagbo threatened with a military intervention as a last option of the neighboring countries should not be the conflict in Ivory Coast settled.
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