Côte d'Ivoire To Become A Non-permanent Member Of The UN Security Council

The UN Security Council in New York, here on December 23, 2016.

The post of non-permanent member of the UN Security Council was granted to Côte d'Ivoire on Friday 2 June. It will, therefore, become one of the 10 non-permanent members to sit in the international institution. "It is a victory of the Ivorian diplomacy," they say in Abidjan.

Côte D'Ivoire: Government Receives the Second Delegation Of Demobilized

Next, to an officer of the National Police of Côte d'Ivoire, a mutinous soldier prepares to leave the checkpoint at the entrance of Bouaké, May 16, 2017

After a first demobilized delegation received by the Minister of the Interior on Wednesday 31 May, another part of these demobilized soldiers was heard on Friday by the Minister of Transport. In both cases, the fate of these more than 6,800 ex-combatants who returned to civilian life was mentioned. Demobilized soldiers who, like the army mutineers a few weeks ago, are demanding bonuses and/or an improvement in their lives and their professional future.

Cote d'Ivoire: Arrest Of Demobilized Spokesperson

The spokesman of a group of demobilized ex-combatants Diomonde Megbe was arrested Friday, May 26 in Bouake while he was at the CHU to visit some of his comrades wounded during incidents with the police who made 5 dead on Tuesday at the southern entrance of the city.

Cote d'Ivoire: Serious Turmoil Linked To Financial Demands

Street scene in Bouake, Ivory Coast (photo of illustration).

A mutiny that shook all the major cities of the country last week, violent and murderous clashes that opposed ex-rebels with the police on Tuesday 23 May, Cote d'Ivoire is currently going through a serious A zone of turbulence linked to repeated financial demands. And we do not know how far it will go.