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.

Cote d'Ivoire: 3 Dead After An Angry Movement Of The Demobilized In Bouake

Checkpoint held by mutineers in Bouake, 15 May 2017

In Côte d'Ivoire, it was believed the last crisis of mutineers refused, but it was not counting the demobilized, these ex-rebels, who were not integrated into the army and who also claim bonuses. In Bouake, it turned out bad Tuesday morning. At least three demobilized soldiers died and about 20 were wounded when security forces tried to dislodge them from the southern entrance to the city.

Côte d'Ivoire: The Bitterness Of The Ex-combatants Demobilized From Bouake

On Thursday 18 May, the Ivorian Chief of Staff, General Sekou Touré, traveled to Bouake. He met with formerly demobilized ex-combatants and went to the hospital at the bedside of the wounded of the mutinies of the last days, as well as in the family of the demobilized who was killed on Monday by a mutineer and whose funerals Place on Monday.

Mutiny In Cote d'Ivoire: Lessons For The Government

After four days of crisis throughout the country, the Ivorian state will pay the balance of premiums promised last January to the mutineers. But in addition to the lost time, these events will remain as a waste in terms of image for the country and above all will lastingly abolish the pact of confidence between the Ivory Coast and its army.

Cote d'Ivoire: The Country's Budget Hit By Several Crises

Calmness has restored to the Ivorian cities shaken by the anger of mutinous soldiers. They refused to allow the government to back down the payment of premiums obtained last January. A measure that will cost this year 100 billion FCFA, equivalent to fifteen million euros to the budget.

Cote d'Ivoire: Satisfied, Mutineers Return To Barracks

In Bouake, the mutineers abandoned the southern entrance corridor to the policemen they had hunted on Friday. "They pass us the relay with a good heart," assures the policeman Eugene Koffi, handling the portcullis. "We're going to keep the corridor the way it used to be."
'The population suffers'

Cote d'Ivoire: Minister Of Defense Announces Agreement With Mutineers

On the fourth day of the mutiny in Côte d'Ivoire, the Minister of Defense announced on Monday evening 15th on the Ivorian radio-TV (RTI) that an agreement had been reached with the military, but without specifying the modalities. The statement circulated to RTI lasted less than 2 minutes.

Heavy Gunfire In Abidjan And Bouake, Ivory Coast's Second City

Heard heavy gunfire on Monday morning, 15 May 2017 in Abidjan and Bouake, which is witnessing a rebellion carried out by the military in Ivory Coast, according to residents and journalists from AFP.
The rebels called fire in the air usually to express their dissatisfaction with the delay in the payment of allowances to them.