Geneva .- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that the number of IDPs in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, and is between 700,000 and one million people, fleeing violence and that amount to nearly 500 dead. According to the UN agency since the beginning of the political crisis and fighting in that country after the elections last November, "at least 462 civilians have died in Abidjan." For its part, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said they have "unconfirmed reports that some 200 civilians" in other African countries have also been killed in Ivory Coast as a result of violence.
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